
Etched Exits Stealth With Working Chip and $1B in Orders
Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.
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Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.

Sam Altman has rejected any sub-trillion IPO valuation as a nonstarter, pushing the listing to 2027 while SoftBank takes a 13% hit and SpaceX's stumbling debut makes the wait look smarter.

General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the bet that billions of hours of video game footage - with action labels - can train AI agents that operate in the real world.

Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5B valuation, becoming the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robot company with robots already earning commercial revenue.

Micron and Anthropic signed a multi-year HBM supply deal on June 22, with Micron also investing in Anthropic's Series H as memory bandwidth becomes the rate-limiting constraint for frontier AI.

The AlphaGo co-founder's open-source AI lab will pay SpaceX $150M monthly for Nvidia GB300 chips at Colossus 2, totaling $6.3B before shipping a single public model.

Baseten's $1.5B raise at a $13B valuation signals a structural shift as open-source models displace closed APIs in enterprise AI.

London-based Behavox lands preferred equity from BlackRock's HPS as compliance demand rises ahead of Colorado and EU AI Act deadlines.

Pramaana Labs uses the LEAN proof language to attach a mathematical certificate to every AI answer in high-stakes domains like tax, law, and drug discovery.

CPP Investments commits C$1 billion to Indian data center operator CtrlS in a dual equity-and-JV structure, joining the global race to build hyperscale AI infrastructure across India.

Amazon leads a $310M round into Odyssey, a startup building world models that simulate physics - not just language - with Trainium chip adoption baked in as the price of entry.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam hit a $1.5 billion valuation after HCLTech put in $150 million, betting India can build its own AI stack and stop routing sensitive data through American clouds.