Funding
Arena, the LMArena leaderboard company, raises $200M at a $3.1B valuation
Arena's valuation rose about 82% since January. Its new alignment rankings track unauthorized actions, false attribution and false claims of task completion.
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Nous Research confirms a $1.5B valuation and launches business agents
Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B for its business-agent push. Hermes adoption figures leave paying demand and workflow reliability to be tested.
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Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO
Coatue and Blackstone reportedly lead Lambda's proposed raise. The backlog figures show how much its growth depends on one Anthropic commitment.
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Modal Labs reportedly closing a $750M round at a $15.75B valuation
TechCrunch reports Modal is nearing an Accel-led round. Its valuation would rise 3.39-fold in four months, while high compute costs keep inference margins thin.
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Instinct funding surge tests privacy expectations for consumer agents
Instinct reportedly raised a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation while its private-beta personal agent drew early privacy and security scrutiny.
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Stability AI raises $76 million from entertainment backers
Stability AI raised a $76 million Series B from entertainment and technology investors, bringing funding under its new leadership to $232 million.
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Keenable emerges from stealth with an agent web index
Keenable raised $26 million led by Accel to build web-scale search infrastructure for AI agents, with a claimed index of more than 100 billion documents.
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Anthropic raises $65B at a $965B valuation
Anthropic's Series H pairs a $65B raise with $47B run-rate revenue and gigawatt-scale compute agreements. The money is for capacity, not just research.
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