Altman: GPT-6 Astra kicks off the 'revenge of the ideas guy'
Altman says Astra makes tiny niche businesses viable, and he now wants to fund founders who know their users but can't code at all.
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Funding and new companies in AI. 14 stories.
Jensen Huang: $400B poured into AI startups in six months
Nvidia's CEO says AI drove $400B of VC into startups since February — and two companies took half of it.
Nvidia eyes billions in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation
Perplexity's revenue tripled to $750M this year, and Nvidia is in talks to lead a round valuing it above $30B.
Higgsfield quadruples to $5.4B on $700M of AI video revenue
A DST Global-led $400M Series B values the AI video startup at $5.4B — 4x its January price, on $700M annualized revenue.
xAI co-founder's River AI raises $1.1B to build AI you own
Igor Babuschkin pulled $1.1B from General Catalyst, Nvidia and AMD to let anyone fine-tune and actually own their AI.
Prime Intellect hits $1B valuation on a $130M Series A
Open-RL infra startup Prime Intellect raised $130M at a unicorn valuation, with NVIDIA, Intel, and Dell now on the cap table.
DeepSeek's First Fundraise Targets $20B+ as Costs Pile Up
After years of self-funding, DeepSeek is raising its first external round — Tencent and Alibaba are both circling.
DeepSeek Seeks $20B+ Valuation in First-Ever Funding Round
Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to back DeepSeek as it raises outside capital for the first time — targeting $300M+ at $20B+ valuation.
DeepSeek Finally Takes Outside Money — $300M at $10B+
The Chinese AI lab that always said no to investors is raising $300M for the first time to fund a massive compute buildout.
DeepSeek Takes Outside Money for the First Time — at $10B+
The Chinese AI lab is raising ~$300M at a $10B+ valuation as surging API demand outpaces its self-funded infrastructure.
Claude Leaked an App Builder That Could Eat Lovable's Lunch
Leaked screenshots show a full-stack builder inside Claude — live preview, auth, DB, hosting, deploy. All from a chat prompt.
Two brothers, $20K, and $1.8B on the way
Matthew Gallagher built Medvi to $401M in year one using AI tools and no employees. Now tracking $1.8B with just his brother.
AgenticSeek: A Fully Local, Free Alternative to Manus AI
Open-source autonomous agent that browses, codes, and plans — runs 100% on your hardware, no APIs, no subscriptions.
MaxClaw: Deploy a Full AI Agent to Telegram in 20 Seconds
MiniMax's cloud-hosted AI agent runs inside Telegram or WeChat — no Docker, no API keys, 200K memory from $10/mo.
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