Runway raises $860M, bets video generation leads to world models
Runway has raised $860 million to date, including a $315 million round from AMD Ventures and Nvidia, as it pivots from filmmaking to building world models via video generation.
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Runway has raised $860 million to date, including a $315 million round from AMD Ventures and Nvidia, as it pivots from filmmaking to building world models via video generation.
Cerebras nearly failed early on with $8M monthly burn. As part of a loan deal, it agreed not to sell to OpenAI competitors like Anthropic, but the restriction is temporary.
Cerebras, the $60B AI chip company, agreed not to sell to specific OpenAI competitors as part of a loan deal, ensuring OpenAI could get capacity. The restriction is temporary.
Cerebras nearly failed early on, burning $8M per month, but secured a loan deal to exclusively serve OpenAI, temporarily avoiding sales to competitors like Anthropic.
Osaurus, an open-source LLM server for Mac, lets users run AI locally, addressing privacy concerns in legal and healthcare. Co-founders Terence Pae and Sam Yoo are backed by accelerator Alliance.
Osaurus, an open-source LLM server for Apple hardware, lets users run models locally or switch to cloud. Co-founders Terence Pae and Sam Yoo target privacy-sensitive sectors like legal and healthcare.
Cerebras opened at $350 per share, nearly double its $185 IPO price, pushing market cap above $100B. CoreWeave launched Sandboxes for RL and agent evaluation, available via Weights & Biases.
Chinese AI companies ByteDance and Kuaishou are outpacing western rivals in AI video generation quality, reshaping the competitive landscape across advertising and entertainment, according to the Financial Times.
CoreWeave launches Sandboxes for secure agentic AI execution, while Cerebras IPO opens at $350, valuing the chipmaker over $100B.
CoreWeave launches Sandboxes for secure agentic AI execution, as Meta's $60B AMD deal and Cerebras' $20B OpenAI pact signal shift to heterogeneous infrastructure.
Cerebras Systems surged to a $100 billion market cap on its first trading day, while CoreWeave introduced Sandboxes, isolated execution environments for reinforcement learning and agentic AI workloads.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng plans to lead the startup's first funding round of up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), signaling Chinese AI ambitions.

CoreWeave outperformed 11 inference providers in a key benchmark, signaling a shift in AI cloud competition. The win highlights performance and cost efficiency as differentiators.
Anthropic formed a $1.5 billion company with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, while OpenAI secured a $4 billion arrangement with 19 investors. The deals aim to embed AI engineers in client businesses.
Investor Immpana Srri scouted deals at the Miami Grand Prix, noting F1 paddocks have evolved into tech meeting grounds over five years. Lightspeed's Aston Martin program will expand to Silverstone.
Digg returns as an AI-focused news aggregator, ranking the top 1,000 people and companies in AI based on X engagement. Meanwhile, advocacy group Americans for Responsible Innovation urges mandatory safety reviews for AI
Cerebras Systems raises its IPO price range to $150-$160 per share, up from $115-$125, as demand for AI inference chips soars. The offering is oversubscribed more than 20 times.
Cerebras Systems ups its IPO price range to $150-$160 per share and increases shares to 30 million, driven by strong demand. The AI chipmaker also counts Amazon and OpenAI as customers after clearing CFIUS review.
Cerebras raises IPO range to $150-$160 per share, up from $115-$125, with orders 20x oversubscribed. The shift to AI inference drives demand for its chips, backed by Amazon and OpenAI.
Nvidia will invest $2.1 billion in IREN to deploy up to five gigawatts of AI infrastructure. Akamai surged 20% after a $1.8 billion commitment from a frontier model provider.
DeepSeek is raising over $7 billion, while Akamai surged 20% after a frontier model provider committed $1.8 billion. IREN and Nvidia signed a $2.1 billion deal for up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure.
Anthropic's Mythos model discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, which existing AI models can replicate. Meanwhile, DeepSeek is raising over $7 billion, signaling a major AI investment boom.
Compal Electronics and Verda partner to supply next-gen GPU servers for AI infrastructure in Europe and APAC. Nvidia invests up to $2.1 billion in IREN for AI data centers.
Compal Electronics will supply GPU servers to Verda, while DeepSeek raises over $7 billion. Akamai surges 20% on $1.8B deal, CoreWeave slides on guidance miss.