Legal AI
Harvey Isn't Raising $500m Yet, Just Talking at $15.5B
Annual recurring revenue reached $350m, up from $190m in January. The plan for the money is a legal foundation model of its own.
Aug 9, 2026
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AI Research
One-Year-Old Robotics Startup Raised $71 Million, Put Robots Online
Enigma left stealth with Index and Ribbit co-leading, angels from six frontier labs, and more than 100 robots in hangars that the public can control in real time.
Jul 28, 2026
AI Models
A Chinese Robot-Brain Startup Says Its Valuation Rose Tenfold in Six Months
Motion Brain added roughly 100 million yuan to a Pre-A round it first closed in May. The revenue it reports is cash collected rather than booked, and the round labels take some untangling.
Jul 26, 2026
AI Models
Applied Computing Raises $20M to Put a Foundation Model Inside Entire Oil and Gas Plants
The London startup's Orbital model fuses time-series data, physics equations and language into one system that can flag an anomaly, chase its root cause and simulate whether the fix breaks something else — with engineering giant KBR leading the round.
Jul 16, 2026
AI Research
Ant Group's Robbyant Unveils LingBot-VA 2.0, an 'Embodied-Native' Robot Model
The Alipay parent's robotics unit says it trained a video-action foundation model from scratch for physical manipulation — reporting 93.6% on a 50-task benchmark and a sixfold latency cut to real-robot speeds.
Jul 11, 2026
