Anthropic, the company behind the AI Claude, is apparently preparing a new round of funding. This is according to a report from The Information. According to the report, the startup could be valued between $30 billion to $40 billion. This would be roughly double the value of a previous round of funding earlier this year. …
Alexandr Wang, the 27-year-old founder of Scale AI, has built a billion-dollar company that is laying the groundwork for modern AI development. As Berber Jin reports in an article for the Wall Street Journal, Scale AI employs more than 100,000 contractors worldwide who write text and label images to train chatbots and other AI systems. …
Black Forest Labs, a German startup for generative AI image models, is close to a new funding round of 100 million US dollars at a valuation of 1 billion dollars, according to sources. This is reported by Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch. The company was founded by the engineers who developed the technology behind Stability AI. …
Fal.ai, a platform for AI-generated multimedia content, has raised $23 million from investors. The company provides computing power and APIs for AI models to create images, audio and video. As Kyle Wiggers reports for TechCrunch, $14 million came from a Series A financing led by Kindred Ventures. Another $9 million came from a previously undisclosed …
AI is enabling new careers for deceased celebrities and millions in revenue for today’s rights holders. According to a report by Mia Dawkins for Bloomberg, the estates of stars such as James Dean, Judy Garland and others can continue to make money thanks to AI technology. For example, these celebrities are lending their voices to …
AI startup 11x.ai has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by venture capital firm Benchmark. Founded in 2022, the company develops AI agents for process automation, which it describes as “automated digital employees”. 11x.ai focuses on sales, marketing, and revenue operations. The company is approaching $10 million in …
Investment in AI has reached unprecedented levels. As Nate Rattner and Tom Dotan report in their article for the Wall Street Journal, tech giants and investors are spending hundreds of billions of US dollars on AI. In the last quarter alone, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta collectively invested more than $50 billion in capital expenditures, …
OpenAI is on the verge of a massive funding round. The company is negotiating with investors for $6.5 billion at a valuation of $150 billion. This is reported by Bloomberg citing insiders. OpenAI also plans to take out a $5 billion loan from banks. The new valuation significantly exceeds the previous value of 86 billion …
OpenAI currently has more than 10 million paying subscribers and 1 million customers for the higher-priced enterprise plan for ChatGPT. This is according to an email that OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap sent to employees, reports The Information. Based on this, the media outlet conservatively estimates that the startup generates $225 million in revenue per month, …
Smartcat, a provider of AI-powered translation tools, has raised $43 million in a Series C funding round. The Boston-based company provides companies with tools and services to translate written and spoken content into around 280 languages. As founder and CEO Ivan Smolnikov told TechCrunch, Smartcat uses a “matching engine” to select appropriate AI models for …