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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.