Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Salesforce to Buy AI Support Platform Fin for $3.6 Billion in Major Agentforce Push

Salesforce is buying AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B to boost Agentforce and expand enterprise AI agents.

AI unicorn Sarvam raised $234M at a $1.5B valuation, led by HCLTech, as India pushes for sovereign AI and homegrown models.

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.