Releases

CoreWeave closed a $2.6 billion secured delayed-draw term loan to finance infrastructure supporting its OpenAI agreement.

Perplexity raised approximately $100 million at an $18 billion valuation.

CoreWeave announced an all-stock agreement to acquire Core Scientific and increase direct ownership of power and HPC data-center infrastructure.

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

Suno acquired WavTool to add advanced digital-audio-workstation technology.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Meta made a $14.3 billion strategic investment for a 49% non-voting minority stake in Scale AI, valuing the independent company at over $29 billion and expanding the commercial partnership.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by Accel at a $14 billion valuation.

Cursor disclosed more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and adoption by over half of the Fortune 500.

Cursor raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST.

NVIDIA reported Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year-over-year and 12% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $39.1 billion (+73% YoY). Net income was $18.8 billion (GAAP). Results included a $4.5 billion charge related to H20 export control restrictions.

Databricks agreed to acquire serverless Postgres company Neon to create Lakebase for AI applications and agents.

CoreWeave completed its acquisition of Weights & Biases, creating an end-to-end AI cloud spanning infrastructure, model development, and evaluation.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

Runway raised $308 million in a General Atlantic-led round at a valuation above $3 billion.

OpenAI announced $40 billion in new funding led by SoftBank at a $300 billion post-money valuation.

CoreWeave’s Class A common stock began public trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRWV.

xAI acquired social network X in an all-stock deal valuing X at $33 billion in equity and xAI at $80 billion, combining data, models, compute and distribution.

CoreWeave priced 37.5 million Class A shares at $40 each, with trading under CRWV scheduled to begin on Nasdaq the next day.

xAI acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot, bringing its team and technology into xAI’s multimodal roadmap.

Shield AI completed a $240 million strategic financing at a $5.3 billion valuation.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases and add experiment tracking, model management, evaluation, and monitoring to its AI cloud platform.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.

IBM completed the HashiCorp acquisition, adding Terraform and Vault to its hybrid-cloud and AI platform.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

ElevenLabs raised $180 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Databricks completed $10 billion in equity financing and arranged $5.25 billion in debt facilities at a $62 billion equity valuation.

Google makes an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, extending its financial and cloud partnership with the AI developer.

Google reportedly made an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, deepening its existing investment and cloud relationship.

Cursor disclosed that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cursor raised $105 million in Series B funding from Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, and existing investors at a reported $2.6 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2024, up 169% year-over-year, briefly surpassing Apple and Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company.

xAI closed a $6 billion Series C backed by major institutional and sovereign investors; regulatory reporting indicated an approximately $45 billion post-money valuation.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by IVP at a $9 billion valuation.

Perplexity acquired Carbon, a startup specializing in connecting AI systems to enterprise data sources; terms were not disclosed.

Databricks announced a Series J targeting $10 billion, with $8.6 billion completed at announcement, valuing the company at $62 billion.

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

A $650 million secondary share transaction valued CoreWeave at approximately $23 billion ahead of its public offering.

Cursor acquired the Supermaven team and technology, later integrating its high-speed completion work into Cursor Tab.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

Cursor raised $60 million in Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and other technology leaders at a reported $400 million valuation.

Hugging Face acquired XetHub to bring content-defined chunking, deduplication, and high-performance storage to large AI repositories.

Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.

Harvey raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a GV-led Series C.

PSP Investments led a $500 million round with Cisco, Fujitsu, AMD Ventures, EDC, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures participating.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Hugging Face acquired Argilla, an open-source platform for human and synthetic data curation and model feedback.