Hippocratic Ai Valued At $1.64B After Series B Round - Cna
:Hippocratic AI notched a valuation of $1.64 billion after its latest fund raise led by Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm that backed Google, Amazon, and Genentech as AI funding thrives. The company said on Thursday it had raised $141 million in a series B funding round, which brings its total raise to $278 million in funding. Kleiner was joined by existing investors A16z, General Catalyst, Premji, NVIDIA, SV Angel, Universal Health Services, and WellSpan Health.
Anthropic To Raise $2B In Deal Valuing Ai Startup At $60 Billion, Wsj Says - Cna
FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo :AI startup Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a deal valuing the OpenAI rival at $60 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the funding round, the report said. Anthropic was valued at around $18 billion in a fundraise led by Menlo Ventures in 2024. Anthropic, known for its GenAI chatbot Claude, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Google Helps Ai Agent Fazeshift Raise $4M In Seed Funding
Fazeshift, an accounts receivable-focused artificial intelligence (AI) agent, has raised $4 million in seed funding. The funding round, announced Tuesday (Jan. 7), was led by Google’s early-stage AI fund Gradient, with support from Y Combinator, Wayfinder, Pioneer Fund, Ritual Capital, Phoenix Fund and angel investors including Terrence Rohan, Kulveer Taggar, and Rich Aberman. “Enterprises waste over $200 […]
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Ai Startups Drive Vc Funding Resurgence, Capturing Record Us Investment In 2024 - Cna
FILE PHOTO: Words reading "Artificial intelligence AI", miniature of robot and toy hand are pictured in this illustration taken December 14, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Artificial intelligence startups have contributed significantly to the recovery of U.S. venture capital funding from market lows, with the total capital raised in 2024 nearly 30 per cent higher year-on-year, according to PitchBook data released on Tuesday. AI startups also captured a record 46.4 per cent of the total $209 billion raised last year, compared to less than 10 per cent a decade earlier.
Openai Ceo Sam Altman Pens Six-word Story About Disturbing Future Of Ai | Fox Business
OpenAI founder Sam Altman's first post of 2025 was a poem about technological singularity, raising concerns and questions about the future of AI and human civilization.
Ai Agents Could Form Nation On Crypto Rails
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Over the last few months, AI agents running on crypto rails have captivated the crypto community. Natural memeticists, these agents are becoming social media stars calibrated to thrill, and sometimes enrich, an “audience” of speculators betting on their meme tokens. The original and most famous of them, Truth Terminal, was created by putting instances of the large foundation model, Claude Opus, in conversation with itself and prioritizing content drawn from the back alleys of the internet including Reddit and 4Chan.
Ai Surge: Micron, Databricks And Basis Ride Wave Of Growth
Micron Technology posted a stunning 400% jump in data center revenue amid soaring AI chip demand, while data intelligence firm Databricks secured a massive $10 billion funding round at a $62 billion valuation. The AI growth momentum also reached the accounting sector, with startup Basis raising $34 million to develop autonomous accounting agents. Micron Posts […]
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Ai Startup Basis Raises $34M For Accounting Automation 'agent'
(Reuters) - Artificial intelligence startup Basis has raised $34 million in a Series A funding round for its AI-powered accounting automation product, the company said on Tuesday. The round was led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors included NFDG, the AI-focused fund run by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and former Apple executive Daniel Gross, OpenAI board members Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo, and Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean. New York-based Basis is part of a category of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Perplexity Ai Triples Valuation To $9B With Latest Funding: Report
Perplexity AI closed a $500 million funding round earlier this month, pushing its valuation to $9 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. That means the AI search engine startup has managed to triple its valuation within six months after an investment from SoftBank put the company at a $3 billion valuation in June. The latest funding round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, the source told Bloomberg. CNBC also reported in November that Perplexity was in the final stages of securing the investment from IVP. A spokesperson for Perplexity declined to comment.
Basis Raises $34M To Deploy Ai Agents For Accountants
Basis has raised $34 million in a Series A round to expand its deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed to help accountants. “We’ve raised $34m to accelerate our goal of equipping every accountant with a team of AI agents,” the company said in a Tuesday (Dec. 17) post on X. The round was led […]
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