AI Startups News
Latest AI Startups news and analysis — 152 articles tagged AI Startups on The Robotics Media.
- Qingxing Raises 100M Yuan Series A+ For Quantum-Inspired AI On Regular GPUs — — Shanghai's Qingxing Heterogeneous Computing has raised ~100M yuan ($14.9M) across two rounds in three months to scale RiverONE, a quantum-inspired vis...
- Cognition Says Devin Has Doubled To $1B ARR In Four Months — — AI coding startup Cognition told Bloomberg on 25 September that Devin's annualized revenue has crossed $1 billion, up from $492M in May — roughly a 20...
- BrainChip Puts Akida AKD1500 On A PCIe Card So Any Desktop Can Run Edge AI — — BrainChip drops its Akida AKD1500 neuromorphic silicon on a plug-and-play PCIe card, aiming to move edge-AI evaluation from lab benches to any worksta...
- Databricks Buys Row Zero To Wire Live Spreadsheets Into Genie — — Databricks acquired Seattle-based Row Zero on September 24, 2026 to put a warehouse-scale spreadsheet inside Genie, Unity Catalog and Unity Gateway.
- Cortical Labs Opens Cortical Cloud, Puts Lab-Grown Neurons Behind A Python SDK — — Cortical Cloud gives any developer Python-SDK access to CL1 biological computers powered by living human neurons.
- Tekever Closes $580M Series D At $6.4B To Bankroll Defense M&A Push — — European AI-drone maker Tekever bags a first close of $580 million led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford, valuing the Ukraine-hardened surveillanc...
- TacnIQ.ai Raises $1.5M From In Group Holdings To Scale Tactile-AI Foundation Models — — Singapore's TacnIQ.ai has closed a $1.5M first tranche of a $3M pre-seed led by In Group Holdings to scale its tactile AI foundation models for physic...
- Spott Raises $21M Series A Led By Balderton For AI-Native Recruiter OS — — Leuven-based Spott closed a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital to scale its AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies globally.
- Perplexity Moves Comet's Browser-Control Feature Behind A Credits Paywall — — Comet's autonomous browser-driving mode is now billed in Computer credits, with Pro users getting 4,000 and Max users 35,000 plus a 10,000-a-month all...
- Manus Targets $4B Valuation In $500M Raise After Meta Split — — Butterfly Effect's Manus is raising $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, with IDG Capital, Boyu Capital and CATL circling the deal and a Hong Kong...
- Rapta Raises $8M to Scale AI Quality Assurance for Defense Manufacturing — — Portland-based industrial AI startup Rapta has raised $8 million co-led by Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners to expand its AI quality assura...
- Anthropic Says Claude Now Leads 26% Of Its AI R&D Work — — Anthropic's first automation disclosure, built on Epoch AI's rating scale, says Claude now "leads" 26% of its AI research and development while touchi...
- DeepKernel Bags Seed From Shunwei To Build A Sovereign AI Stack — — Beijing startup DeepKernel has closed a tens-of-millions-of-yuan seed round led by Shunwei Capital to build a three-layer sovereign AI infrastructure...
- Inspiren Bags $70M Series C To Bring Physical AI To Senior Living — — NewView Capital leads a $70M Series C for Inspiren at a valuation above $500M as the New York startup scales its computer-vision fall detection stack...
- Salesforce In Talks To Buy AI Customer-Research Startup Listen Labs For ~$2B — — Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that runs customer research through autonomous interviews, for roughly $2 billio...
- Alibaba To Lead $300M Round For UniPat AI At $2.5B, Betting On China's AI Evaluation Layer — — Alibaba, Tencent and HSG are lining up a $300 million round for Chinese benchmarking startup UniPat AI at a $2.5 billion valuation — the biggest bet y...
- Harvey Locks In $550M At $15.5B Valuation As Legal AI's Runaway Leader — — Diffusion and Lightspeed co-lead a fresh $550M round that pushes Harvey's valuation to $15.5B just months after it hit $11B, with ARR already north of...
- XDOF In Talks For $1.2B Series B Led By 8VC Just Months After Stealth Exit — — XDOF is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at roughly a $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, less than three months after the robot teleoperation d...
- Bootstrapped Turkish Startup HubX Becomes 8th Turcorn With $75M From Point72 — — Izmir-based consumer AI app factory HubX has crossed $1.2 billion pre-money with its first ever outside round, a $75 million cheque led by Point72 Pri...
- Resect AI Emerges From Stealth With $25M To Kill LLM Hallucinations Mid-Generation — — Washington state startup Resect AI has come out of stealth with $25 million to commercialise an in-stream layer that inspects LLM internals and rewrit...