SubQ Launches: 12M-Token Context on Sub-Quadratic AI
Subquadratic exits stealth with SubQ, the first frontier model built on a sparse-attention architecture, a $29M seed round, and a 12M-token context window that costs a fraction of Opus.
Articles Tagged "Venture Capital"
Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center
Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.
OpenAI, Anthropic Race to Build Their Own Palantir
On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic each announced PE-backed enterprise ventures valued at a combined $11.5B, both built on the forward-deployed engineer model Palantir made famous.
OpenAI Misses Revenue Targets - IPO in Doubt
WSJ reports OpenAI missed multiple monthly revenue targets and its 1B user goal in 2026, sending Oracle down 6% and chip stocks sliding as IPO doubts surface.
David Silver Raises $1.1B to Build AI Without Human Data
David Silver, creator of AlphaGo and AlphaZero, closed a $1.1B seed round for Ineffable Intelligence - a London lab building AI that learns without human data.
Google Backs Anthropic With $40B and 5 Gigawatts
Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic alongside five gigawatts of cloud compute, making it the largest single infrastructure bet in AI history.
Vast Data Raises $1B at $30B, NVIDIA Backs AI Storage
Vast Data closes a $1B Series F at $30B valuation - triple its 2023 price - with NVIDIA, Drive Capital, and Access Industries backing its push to own the data layer for AI infrastructure.
OpenClaw Passes The Fake-Star Audit - Mostly
We ran our fake-star methodology against OpenClaw and 10 ecosystem variants, sampling 361,000-star profiles and fork ratios. The main repo looks clean. Most clones look clean. One repo with 6,532 claimed stars has vanished.
Cursor Targets $50B Valuation - Enterprise Now Pays the Bills
Cursor is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, nearly doubling its November figure as enterprise clients drive 60% of revenue.
OpenAI's IPO Will Reserve Shares for Everyday Investors
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed the company will reserve IPO shares for retail buyers, after the firm raised $3B from individuals in its $122B funding round - three times what it set out to raise.
Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
