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A $400 Million Nonprofit Wants to Build the Public Internet of AI
Current AI is handing out grants, shipping offline devices, and fighting to keep AI from becoming a private club. Here is what it is building, who is paying for it, and why a farmer in rural India is the whole point.
Fireworks AI hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies hunt for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic
The cloud startup, backed by Nvidia, now handles more AI traffic per day than Google's own developer tools. Its pitch: specialist models at a fraction of the cost of the big labs.
The ex-DeepMind researcher who raised $300 million before his startup had a product
Andrew Dai spent over a decade helping build some of the most influential AI systems in the world. Now he thinks visual AI is where the next big leap happens, and investors are betting heavily that he is right.
AMI Labs' CEO Says 'Superintelligence' Is a Meaningless Word. Here's What He's Building Instead.
Alexandre LeBrun raised over a billion dollars to teach AI how the physical world works. He thinks the buzzwords his rivals love are, at best, unhelpful.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.
Reflection AI Signs $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius
The open-model startup, valued at $8 billion, is stacking up GPU access at speed as demand for AI that nobody can switch off overnight keeps growing.
Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI is not about language. It is about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.