Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
The open-model startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers locks in more than $1 billion of AI capacity from European infrastructure firm Nebius through 2029 — the latest sign that guaranteed compute is now a startup's most valuable asset.
1d ago
The Hangzhou lab behind the open-weight model that rattled the industry is reportedly seeking fresh capital at a roughly $71 billion valuation — barely a month after its first outside round — while preparing a mainland-China listing.
1d ago
Fourteen employees, 85% of the Fortune 500 and a user base that doubled since January: the tool for running open-weight models on your own hardware just became a venture story about inference costs.
6d ago
Hunyuan 3.0 is a 295-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that fires just 21B parameters per token, ships under Apache 2.0, and edges GPT-5.5 on science — free on OpenRouter through July 21.
Jul 8, 2026
The GPU 'neocloud' hit an $8.3 billion valuation as demand for running open-source models in production surges, with Aramco Ventures leading and Nvidia joining.
Jul 5, 2026
