Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16zcrypto’s new fund will stay the course.
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Krutrim’s pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.
AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. It’s relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.