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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, closed with a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $2.16 trillion, with SPCX closing at $158.96 on Nasdaq. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

Oracle's closing equity market capitalization was approximately $431.38 billion on the latest completed U.S. trading day.

IBM's closing equity market capitalization was approximately $209.67 billion on the latest completed U.S. trading day.

Baidu's Nasdaq market capitalization was $28.81B at the latest market close before October 5, 2026.

At the latest market close before October 4, CoreWeave’s Nasdaq-listed equity had a market capitalization of approximately $49.38 billion, with CRWV closing at $89.62.

Amazon's closing market capitalization was approximately $2.687 trillion, based on a $248.23 closing share price and 10,826,289,523 shares outstanding.

Meta Platforms closed with an estimated public equity market capitalization of $1.8474 trillion based on its Nasdaq-listed META shares.

Microsoft closed with an estimated public equity market capitalization of $3.809 trillion based on its Nasdaq-listed MSFT shares.

NVIDIA market capitalisation as of 1 October 2026, up 23% year-to-date, making NVIDIA the most valuable public company in history at that point. Growth driven by continued AI infrastructure spending and record quarterly revenues exceeding $96 billion.

Alphabet Inc., Google's publicly traded parent, closed with an estimated consolidated equity market capitalization of $4.1367 trillion. Google LLC is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the Google company profile.

Databricks acquired Row Zero to add a live, governed spreadsheet experience for humans and agents inside Genie.

The companies signed an agreement to form a transatlantic sovereign-AI provider operating globally as Cohere, with headquarters and R&D in Canada and Germany; closing remained pending.

DeepSeek reportedly moved toward a potential mainland listing while its next financing remained in progress.

Mistral AI raised €3 billion in a Series D led by Samsung, with Scaleup Europe Fund, EQT and PSG participating, at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.

Reuters reported that Moonshot confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO and was targeting a roughly $3 billion offering.

NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9303 billion. The companies said Hugging Face would retain its brand, platform, open-source commitments, and multi-cloud, multi-accelerator approach pending closing.

NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face while committing to preserve its open, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator model platform.

NVIDIA reported Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year-over-year and 18% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $89.0 billion (+117% YoY). Net income was $59.7 billion (GAAP). Jensen Huang stated 'AI has reached its inflection point' and demand is accelerating. Q3 FY2027 guidance set at $108 billion.

NVIDIA was reported to be discussing an investment in Perplexity as part of a round that could value the company above $30 billion; no completed round was announced.

Baidu reported AI Cloud Infrastructure revenue of RMB7.3B for Q2 2026, up 50% year over year.

Databricks reportedly closed a $5 billion strategic financing round at a $190 billion valuation.

CoreWeave reported second-quarter revenue of $2.575 billion, a $626 million net loss, and approximately $104 billion of revenue backlog.

CoreWeave closed a $2.6 billion delayed-draw term loan facility backed by a diversified set of customer contracts.

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in quarterly net sales, $27.5 billion in operating income, and AWS quarterly sales of $42.2 billion.

Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.

Meta reported $60.801 billion in quarterly revenue, $15.848 billion in net income and headcount of 75,472 as of June 30, 2026.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

DeepSeek reportedly raised more than RMB50B ($7.4B) in a founder-controlled structure at a valuation exceeding $50B.

Databricks announced an agreement to acquire AI SOC company Panther to expand its agentic security-lakehouse offering.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was set to raise about RMB50B from investors including Tencent and CATL, at a projected $52B-$59B post-money valuation.

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering; pricing and share count were not yet set.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, at a $965 billion post-money valuation.

Mistral AI signed a definitive agreement to acquire Emmi AI, expanding into physics-aware AI for engineering and industry; terms were not disclosed.

Modal reported an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $300 million at the time of its Series C.

Modal raised $355 million in Series C financing at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA reported Q1 fiscal 2027 record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached a record $75.2 billion (+92% YoY). Net income was $58.3 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $80 billion share repurchase and raised the quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 per share.

Cohere acquired biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI, adding its research team, biomedical datasets and domain technology to North for Pharma.

Baidu reported AI Cloud Infrastructure revenue of RMB8.8B for Q1 2026, up 79% year over year.

Anthropic acquired Stainless, an SDK and MCP server tooling company that had powered generation of Anthropic's official SDKs.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.

Scale acquired ICG Solutions and its LUX real-time streaming-data analytics platform to expand its national-security AI stack; ICG initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

CoreWeave closed DDTL 4.0, an up-to-$8.5 billion non-recourse facility described as the first investment-grade-rated financing backed by HPC infrastructure and a customer contract.

OpenAI announced the close of $122 billion in capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation.

Mistral AI secured approximately $830 million in debt financing to buy NVIDIA chips and develop a Paris-area AI data centre.

OpenAI announced $110 billion of new investment from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation.

CoreWeave reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $5.131 billion, up 168% year over year, with $66.8 billion of revenue backlog.

NVIDIA reported Q4 fiscal 2026 record revenue of $68.1 billion, up 73% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $62.3 billion. Full-year FY2026 revenue reached $215.9 billion (+65% YoY), with full-year net income of $120.1 billion (GAAP).

Mistral AI agreed to acquire French serverless cloud platform Koyeb to strengthen its AI infrastructure and deployment stack; financial terms were not disclosed.

Anthropic disclosed annualized run-rate revenue of $14 billion and said it had grown more than tenfold annually for each of the prior three years.

Anthropic raised a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with a $380 billion post-money valuation.

Databricks disclosed a $1.4 billion annual revenue run-rate for its AI products.

Databricks completed about $5 billion of equity financing at a $134 billion valuation plus roughly $2 billion of additional debt capacity.

SpaceX acquired X.AI Holdings in an all-stock merger. Reporting tied to the transaction valued xAI at about $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, implying a combined $1.25 trillion value.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2025, up 38% year-over-year. NVIDIA remained the world's most valuable public company, sustained by record data centre AI GPU demand.

Databricks announced it was raising more than $4 billion in Series L equity financing at a $134 billion valuation.

NVIDIA reported Q3 fiscal 2026 record revenue of $57.0 billion, up 62% year-over-year and 22% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $51.2 billion (+66% YoY). Net income was $31.9 billion (GAAP). Jensen Huang noted 'Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out.'

CoreWeave increased its revolving credit facility from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion and extended maturity to November 2029.

CoreWeave announced the acquisition of Marimo, creator of an open-source reactive Python notebook, to unify experimentation and production workflows.

CoreWeave agreed to acquire Monolith AI and extend its full-stack platform into industrial engineering, simulation, automotive, and manufacturing workflows.

Modal announced its Series B, reported at $87 million and a $1.1 billion post-money valuation.

A second close added $100 million from BDC and Nexxus Capital Management, bringing Cohere's valuation to approximately $7 billion.

Perplexity raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation.

Mistral AI raised €1.7 billion in a Series C led by ASML at an €11.7 billion post-money valuation.

Databricks announced the close of a $1 billion Series K at a valuation above $100 billion.

Databricks disclosed that its AI products had exceeded a $1 billion annual revenue run-rate.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire OpenPipe and add reinforcement-learning post-training for AI agents to its developer platform.

Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ at a $183 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized revenue had exceeded $5 billion by August 2025.

NVIDIA reported Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 56% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached $41.1 billion. Net income was $26.4 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $60 billion share repurchase authorization.

Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital co-led a $500 million financing with AMD, NVIDIA, PSP, Salesforce Ventures and HOOPP participating.

Perplexity submitted a nonbinding $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser; Google had not offered Chrome for sale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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