xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent — 1 Million Lines of Rust
xAI open-sourced Grok Build — its agentic coding tool with terminal UI — on GitHub on July 15, 2026. The project is approximately 1 million lines of Rust code.
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Nedeľa 26. júla 2026
Sobota 25. júla 2026
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5, Its Most Capable Model
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, leading the Artificial Analysis leaderboard with major improvements in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity.
Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta Lead 25-Company Open-Weight AI Coalition
Twenty-five tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta formed a coalition to advocate for development and distribution of open-weight AI models, directly pushing back against closed model approaches.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live in ChatGPT Desktop App
OpenAI introduced full-duplex voice mode GPT-Live to the ChatGPT desktop app, also enabling voice control of Codex and ChatGPT Work agents during conversations.
Cognition AI Acquires Startup Poke
Cognition AI, maker of the autonomous coder Devin, acquired startup Poke, expanding its ecosystem of AI tools for developers.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, acquired popular astrology app Co-Star, moving beyond the visual AI space.
China Seeks Clarity in AI Talks with the US
Chinese officials are requesting a more concrete agenda for AI talks with the United States amid ongoing technological and trade tensions.
White House AI Power Czar Departs
The White House advisor responsible for energy infrastructure for AI data centers is departing, raising questions about continuity of AI energy policy.
Israel and UK Appoint AI Ministers
Israel and the United Kingdom appointed dedicated AI ministers, strengthening governmental commitment to strategic AI development and related legislation.
Štvrtok 23. júla 2026
Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Atoms, the robotics venture of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber also participating. The company targets industrial AI to modernize physical-world operations.
China's PsiBot Hits $1.48 Billion Valuation, Becoming Latest Chinese AI Unicorn
Chinese AI startup PsiBot is raising close to $100 million at a $1.48 billion valuation led by Chery Automobile and Lens Technology, becoming the latest Chinese AI unicorn despite US export control pressures.
Streda 22. júla 2026
Glow Emerges from Stealth at $1.2B Valuation to Tackle AI-Era Endpoint Security
Glow, founded by ex-Meta VP of Engineering and Snowflake's cybersecurity chief, emerged from stealth with a $180M Series A at $1.2B valuation. It targets the endpoint security gap created by enterprise AI agent adoption.
Pondelok 20. júla 2026
CuspAI Raises $450M Series B to Accelerate AI Materials Discovery for Chipmaking
Cambridge-based CuspAI closed a $450M Series B on July 20, 2026, co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with Jeff Bezos's Bezos Expeditions as a major backer. The company simultaneously launched the AI Materials Foundry — a global network with 45+ founding members including NVIDIA, Meta, and Samsung.
Nonprofit Current AI Raises $400M to Build the Open 'World Wide Web of AI'
Nonprofit Current AI, led by CEO Ayah Bdeir, announced $400M in commitments on July 19, 2026, including $100M from the French government plus DeepMind, Salesforce, Ford Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation. The goal: build open, culturally neutral AI infrastructure accessible to all communities and languages.
Sobota 18. júla 2026
Announcing our Series D and $1B ARR
Fireworks AI closed a $1.505B Series D at a $17.5B valuation after surpassing $1B in annualized revenue. The company processes 40 trillion tokens daily, with 95%+ from customer-specialized models.
Databricks hits $188 billion valuation in new strategic funding round
Databricks announced a strategic funding round led by Coatue at a $188 billion valuation, up from $134 billion in February 2026, with proceeds earmarked for its Unity AI Gateway, Genie AI coworker, and Lakebase serverless database.
Walden Robotics Launches with $300 Million to Put General-Purpose Robots to Work Today
Cambridge-based Walden Robotics (spun out of Toyota Research Institute) launched from stealth with $300M at a $1.1B valuation. One of their robots is already working 8-hour shifts at a Toyota North American factory.
Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany's largest ever seed round
Munich-based Microagi raised $55M in Germany's largest-ever seed round, led by Hummingbird Ventures. The startup builds a data platform helping manufacturers deploy humanoid robots into live production environments.
Štvrtok 16. júla 2026
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
Emergent, an Indian AI platform that lets non-technical users build full-stack production apps, raised $130M in Series C at a $1.5B valuation — a fivefold jump in six months. Over 12 million apps have been built on the platform.
Streda 15. júla 2026
Chai Discovery Raises $400M Series C at $3.8B Valuation for AI Drug Discovery
AI biotech startup Chai Discovery closed a $400M Series C at a $3.8B valuation — triple its valuation from seven months prior. The Chai-3 platform improves antibody binding affinity and is used by Eli Lilly and Pfizer. OpenAI is among existing investors.
Utorok 14. júla 2026
DeepSeek Mulls New Funding Round at $71 Billion Valuation
Chinese AI leader DeepSeek is exploring a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation — just weeks after closing its $7.4 billion June 2026 round. The 42% valuation jump reflects surging global demand for its models.
Pondelok 13. júla 2026
Helsing raises $1.8 billion in Europe's biggest defense-startup round
European defense AI company Helsing closed a $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation — the largest-ever funding round for a European defense tech startup. Investors include Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Dragoneer, Lightspeed, and JPMorgan.
Štvrtok 9. júla 2026
General Intuition raises $320M to train robots on video game data — ambition to be the 'GPT of physical AI'
Robotics startup General Intuition raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation. CEO Pim de Witte believes robotics is undergoing a similar inflection point as NLP after GPT-3, with video game data being the key instead of real-world robot telemetry.
Lovable Reportedly in Talks to Double Its Valuation to $13.2B
Lovable, the AI-powered vibe-coding platform, is reportedly in talks for a new funding round that would double its valuation to $13.2 billion.
Prime Intellect Raises $130M Series A to Help Enterprises Build Their Own AI Agents
Prime Intellect, a startup providing compute and specialized tooling for enterprises building their own AI agents, raised a $130M Series A at a $1 billion valuation.
Streda 8. júla 2026
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic. JPMorgan Chase named it as an inference infrastructure partner deploying SN40 and SN50 systems for on-premise AI workloads.
AI Law Startup Norm Raises $120M Series C, Hits $1.2B Unicorn Valuation
Norm, an AI-native law firm using its own AI agents supervised by human attorneys for enterprise clients, closed a $120M Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2B unicorn valuation.
Utorok 7. júla 2026
Station F Launches Second F/ai Accelerator Cohort — First Cohort Raised $34 Million
Station F's second F/ai accelerator cohort kicks off in September 2026, after the first cohort collectively raised $34 million in pre-seed funding, establishing the Paris hub as Europe's premier AI startup launchpad.
Pondelok 6. júla 2026
AI Boom Mints 90 New Unicorns in H1 2026 — Double the Pace of 2025
Nearly 90 startups reached unicorn status in H1 2026, more than double 2025's pace. Promethus (co-founded by Bezos) raised a $12B Series B — the largest single startup round in history.
Piatok 3. júla 2026
Crusoe in Talks to Raise $3 Billion in Round That May Triple Firm's Value
Crusoe, the AI data center company with compute contracts for Meta and Oracle, is in talks to raise $3 billion in a round that may triple its valuation from $10 billion to $30 billion, as it contracts 4.9 GW of computing power with 40+ GW in pipeline.
China's Kling AI Raises $2 Billion to Expand AI Video Operations
Kling AI, a spinoff from Chinese short-video giant Kuaishou Technology, raised an initial $2 billion in venture capital to expand its AI video generation operations.
Štvrtok 2. júla 2026
Venice AI Becomes a Unicorn with $65M Series A as Its Privacy-First AI Platform Takes Off
Privacy-focused AI platform Venice AI raised a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation — its first external fundraise — after organically growing to over 3 million active users offering access to 200+ AI models with zero data retention.
Utorok 30. júna 2026
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Proception, founded by a former Tesla Optimus technical lead, settled a year-old trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and simultaneously announced an $11 million seed round led by First Round Capital.
Nedeľa 28. júna 2026
Mistral AI raises $830M debt facility for data center expansion at €11.7B valuation
Mistral AI raised $830M in debt (not equity) at an €11.7B valuation. A new 10 MW inference-focused data center at Les Ulis opens in Q3 2026.
Piatok 26. júna 2026
General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
Spatial-AI startup General Intuition raised a $320M Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a $2.3B valuation, training world models on gameplay clips from Medal's 17M monthly users.
Trase Raises $107M Seed Round Led by ARCH Venture Partners to Build Agentic OS for Regulated Industries
Trase, founded by Grant Verstandig, raised a $107M seed led by ARCH Venture Partners to build an agentic operating system for regulated industries like healthcare and defense. Total funding now $117.5M.
Scaled Cognition Raises $100M Series A Led by Khosla Ventures to Build Reliable Enterprise AI
Scaled Cognition raised $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$750M valuation, with Genesys joining as both investor and customer. The company sells its Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT) model and simulation platform for high-stakes enterprise deployments.
Alan Announces €480 Million Financing Round to Make Prevention Insurance the New Global Standard
French digital health insurer Alan closed a €480M Series G led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation. Q1 2026 ARR exceeded €800M with 53% YoY growth. One of Europe's largest 2026 health-tech rounds.
Runpod Raises $100M Led by Summit Partners at $1B Valuation
GPU cloud Runpod closed a $100M growth round led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation. ARR doubled in six months to $240M. The company turned down acquisition offers above $500M to stay independent.
Patronus AI Lands $50M to Build Digital Worlds That Stress-Test AI Agents
Patronus AI raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield Partners and unveiled Digital World Models — large-scale simulation environments to stress-test AI agents before production. Revenue grew 15x year over year.
Sail Research Emerges from Stealth with $80M to Slash AI Agent Inference Costs
Sail Research emerged from stealth with a combined $80M seed + Series A at a $450M valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins with Sequoia, Redpoint. The company optimises infrastructure for long-running AI agents and already processes trillions of tokens weekly.
Vishal Sikka's Hang Ten Systems raises $32M seed to challenge IT services with agentic AI
Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka emerged with Hang Ten Systems, raising a $32M seed led by Mayfield. Early customers include Siemens Gamesa and Fresenius; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is on the board.
Framework Ventures Raises $400M Fourth Fund, Expands Beyond Crypto into AI and Robotics
Crypto-native VC Framework Ventures closed a $400M fourth fund and explicitly broadened its scope to 'frontier technology' including AI, robotics and energy. Roughly half the fund is already deployed.
Štvrtok 25. júna 2026
Runlayer raises $30M Series A to govern enterprise AI agents
Runlayer raised $30M from Felicis and Khosla Ventures to give enterprises unified control over deployed AI agents and visibility into shadow AI.
Coval raises $28M Series A to define safety for autonomous voice agents
Coval, founded by ex-Waymo engineer Brooke Hopkins, raised $28M led by Norwest to scale simulation infrastructure for voice and chat AI agents.
Assort Health raises $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation for healthcare AI
Assort Health closed a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, making it one of the largest deployments of AI agents in healthcare.
Taktile raises $110M Series C to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Goldman Sachs led a $110M Series C for Berlin/NYC startup Taktile, whose Agentic Decision Platform automates loan approvals and insurance claims.
Streda 24. júna 2026
AI Factory Startup Hadrian Denies Reported $1 Billion Funding Round
Defense startup Hadrian Automation has denied a Bloomberg report claiming a $1B funding round at a $7.5B valuation. The company was valued at $1.6B in January, so the reported number would more than quadruple it.
Utorok 23. júna 2026
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
Open-source AI lab Reflection (founded by ex-DeepMind researchers) will pay SpaceX $150M/month through 2029 — up to $6.3B total — for GB300-based compute at the Colossus 2 data center near Memphis.
Abu Dhabi's MGX Raises About $50 Billion to Accelerate AI Deals
MGX has raised close to $50B from sovereign wealth funds and institutions to accelerate AI infrastructure and frontier-tech bets, with capital already flowing to OpenAI and xAI.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Data Centers After Nvidia Asset Sale
Groq raised $650M to expand data-center capacity and pivot from chip maker into AI compute provider, following an asset sale to Nvidia.
SpaceX Readies Its $20 Billion Bond Debut to Fund AI Ambition
SpaceX launched its first-ever USD investment-grade bond offering, expected to total ~$20B, signaling a major borrowing spree to back its AI compute (Colossus) ambitions after its $75B IPO.
Anthropic Backer Menlo Ventures Lands $3 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Haul
Anthropic backer Menlo Ventures closed $3B across two vehicles — Menlo Ventures XVII (seed/Series A) and Inflection IV (growth) — its largest haul ever, with its Anthropic stake reportedly worth ~$14B.
Nedeľa 21. júna 2026
VLC creator's Kyber raises $5M to control robots with low latency
VLC lead Jean-Baptiste Kempf launched Kyber, an SDK to control robots, drones and remote IT with minimal latency. Lightspeed — backer of Anthropic and Mistral — led a $5M round.
Piatok 19. júna 2026
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
Odyssey raised a Series B led by Natural Capital with Amazon and AMD Ventures backing world-model tech. AWS becomes its preferred cloud; existing backers include Jeff Dean and Garry Tan.
Alphabet announces proposed $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infrastructure and compute
Google's parent plans an $80B equity raise to fund the next wave of AI data-center buildout and compute.
Bezos-backed Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation
The physical-AI startup from Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj raised $12B from JPMorgan, Goldman and BlackRock; the goal is an 'artificial general engineer' that designs physical systems.
Mistral in talks to raise €3B at €20B valuation — Europe doubles its bet
The French AI lab is reportedly negotiating roughly €3B ($3.5B), which would nearly double its September 2025 €11.7B valuation. Mistral positions itself as Europe's sovereign alternative to US labs.