Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Cognition Pushes Back on SpaceX Acquisition Report as AI Coding Race Intensifies

SpaceX reportedly explored buying Cognition, but CEO Scott Wu says the AI coding startup is not for sale.

Generalist AI shows robot learning that adapts from a single video, hinting at more flexible machines for factories and logistics.

Calendly enters AI note-taking with transcription, summaries and Callie, targeting meeting-heavy teams amid fierce competition.

Vivodyne says AI drug discovery needs human tissue data, not bigger models, and it just opened a robotic human data center near San Francisco.

Cursor launched Origin, a GitHub rival built for AI-era coding, amid outages that renewed developer frustration with the dominant code host.

AI hardware startup Etched raises $700 million at a $21 billion valuation after Jane Street tests and buys its inference systems.

Warp launches an AI software factory platform to help teams deploy, manage, and measure coding agents without building infrastructure from scratch.

Perplexity India surged after Airtel’s free Pro giveaway, with downloads falling but active users and revenue still holding up.

Z.ai’s open-weight model GLM 5.3 may boost cyber defense, but experts warn the open-weight model could also aid hackers.

Anthropic revenue hit a $65B annualized run rate, boosting IPO expectations and intensifying the AI race with OpenAI.