Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

SpaceX Overtakes Amazon as Valuation Surges to $2.7 Trillion After Cursor Deal

SpaceX valuation tops $2.7T after a stock rally and Cursor acquisition, passing Amazon in a market driven by AI and infrastructure bets.

Probably raised $9M to build AI reliability tools that prevent hallucinations with deterministic validators and smaller models.

SpaceX agrees to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B in stock, expanding Musk’s AI push days after the company’s blockbuster IPO.

Malaysia’s AI messaging app Respond.io raised $62.5M to expand in North America and Europe and accelerate acquisitions.

AI notetakers maker Plaud says it shipped 2 million devices and topped $100M in ARR, signaling real traction for AI hardware.

GLM-5.2 review: Z.ai launches a 1M-token coding model with new reasoning modes, staged access, and benchmark questions.

Anthropic’s India setback sparks a broader India AI debate over sovereign models, open source, and dependence on U.S.-controlled frontier systems.

Datadog veterans launch AI coding infrastructure startup Niteshift with $7M to help companies avoid lock-in to OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

IPO summer is back, but with MANGOS leading the way. Here’s what the new tech elite means for valuations, AI, and public markets.

Mistral funding round talks could raise €3 billion and value the French AI startup at €20 billion, highlighting Europe’s AI ambitions.