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SambaNova’s $1 billion Series F first close values the inference company at $11 billion and shows how much capital is still chasing alternatives to the dominant GPU stack.
Prime Intellect raised $130 million at a $1 billion valuation to make advanced model training and reinforcement learning available to companies that want specialized internal agents.
OpenAI’s new voice models can listen and speak at the same time, maintain conversational flow and hand difficult questions to a frontier model in the background.
Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model approaches the agentic performance of its more expensive Opus tier while becoming the default for free and paid individual users.
The interconnect startup’s $50 million strategic financing from major chip and cloud companies highlights a constraint that faster processors cannot solve alone: moving data across an AI system.
