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Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on.
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
Clair Health’s wearable will cost $369 and will an app-based subscription of $9.99 per month
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.