Releases

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Harvey raised a $21 million Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others.

Valuation implied by the funding round "CoreWeave closes $420 million Series B".

CoreWeave closed a primary Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital to expand its GPU cloud for generative AI.

Perplexity raised $25.6 million in a Series A led by New Enterprise Associates.

CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies and its cloud task-management and burst-rendering platform, extending the cloud into end-to-end VFX and animation workflows.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2022, down 51% from the prior year amid a broader semiconductor and tech sector downturn.

Magnetar backed CoreWeave with a $100 million strategic investment to expand GPU capacity for AI, machine learning, and visual-computing customers.

Harvey raised a $5 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund.

Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors.

Oracle completed its acquisition of Cerner to create a major health technology and clinical-data business.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series C funding at $2 billion valuation".

Hugging Face raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Lux Capital at a reported $2 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic raised $580 million to build steerable, interpretable, and robust AI systems and expand its research infrastructure.

Modal raised $7 million in seed financing to build its serverless cloud platform.

Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nuance, adding clinical speech recognition, ambient intelligence and conversational AI to its portfolio.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Cohere raises $125M Series B".

Cohere raised $125 million in a Series B led by Tiger Global to expand its enterprise language-model platform.

IBM agreed to sell healthcare data and analytics assets from Watson Health to Francisco Partners.

ElevenLabs' first financing valued the company at $9 million.

Hugging Face acquired Gradio, bringing its open-source interface framework and team into the company while keeping the project open source.

CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure.

Scale acquired Berlin-based SiaSearch and folded its petabyte-scale sensor-data search technology and team into Scale Nucleus.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series H closes at $38 billion valuation".

Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating.

Shield AI acquired Martin UAV, bringing the V-BAT vertical-takeoff aircraft into its portfolio.

Anthropic raised $124 million to pursue computationally intensive research into reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series E funding at $7.3 billion valuation".

Scale raised $325 million in Series E funding co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Tiger Global at a reported $7.3 billion valuation.

Microsoft agrees to acquire Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion including net debt, expanding its healthcare and conversational-AI capabilities.

Baidu's Class A ordinary shares began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 9888.

Hugging Face raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Addition to grow its open-source machine-learning ecosystem and hosted platform.

Replit announced a $20 million Series A led by A.Capital.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series G raises $1 billion at $28 billion valuation".

Databricks raised $1 billion led by Franklin Templeton at a $28 billion post-money valuation.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series D funding above $3.5 billion valuation".

Scale acquired real-time video-understanding startup Helia AI and brought its team and infrastructure expertise into the Nucleus platform.

Scale raised $155 million in a Series D led by Tiger Global at a post-money valuation above $3.5 billion.

Valuation implied by the IPO "Palantir completes direct listing".

Palantir began trading on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct listing, marking its transition to a public company.

Databricks acquired open-source visualization company Redash to expand SQL analytics and collaboration.

Hugging Face raised $15 million in a Series A led by Lux Capital to expand its open-source natural-language-processing platform.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series F raises $400 million at $6.2 billion valuation".

Databricks raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.2 billion valuation.

Facebook agreed to acquire CTRL-labs, bringing neural-interface research into Reality Labs.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series C funding at over $1 billion valuation".

Scale raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund at a valuation above $1 billion.

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI and becomes its exclusive cloud partner for new Azure AI supercomputing technologies.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership.