Releases

Shield AI acquired Sentient Vision Systems and its wide-area motion-imaging portfolio.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Microsoft invested €15 million in Mistral AI through a convertible note alongside the companies' commercial partnership.

Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

Databricks acquired Einblick, whose natural-language notebook technology and team strengthened AI-native data exploration.

ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B and reached unicorn status at an approximately $1.1 billion valuation.

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2023, up 240% year-over-year, driven by explosive demand for AI training GPUs following the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom.

Harvey raised $80 million at a $715 million valuation.

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

CoreWeave completed a $642 million secondary transaction that gave existing shareholders liquidity and broadened its institutional investor base.

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, including $500 million upfront and an additional $1.5 billion over time.

Databricks acquired enterprise data replication company Arcion to make operational data available for analytics and AI.

Anysphere raised an $8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund to build Cursor.

Modal announced a $16 million Series A, bringing total capital raised to $23 million.

Amazon made an initial $1.25 billion investment in Anthropic under its broader commitment of up to $4 billion.

Databricks raised more than $500 million in Series I financing at a $43 billion valuation.

Hugging Face raised $235 million in a Series D led by Salesforce Ventures at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation, with participation from major cloud and semiconductor companies.

SK Telecom invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic and formed a partnership to build a multilingual model for telecommunications.

CoreWeave closed a $2.3 billion debt financing led by Magnetar and Blackstone to purchase hardware for contracted AI workloads.

Databricks completed its acquisition of MosaicML, adding foundation-model training, inference, research and open models to its AI platform.

Runway raised a $141 million financing extension at a reported $1.5 billion valuation.

ElevenLabs raised a $19 million Series A led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Cohere raised $270 million from Inovia, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce and other investors to scale enterprise generative AI.

Anthropic raised $450 million led by Spark Capital to scale reliable AI products and safety research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.