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GIC is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, investing the government's reserves globally across equities, bonds, real estate, and private markets.
Anthropic's Benjamin Mann said at the opening of its fifth Asia-Pacific office that the company will keep some oversight of how customers use its top models. Buyers asking for sovereign Claude should budget for monitoring that stays, with local data residency still undated.
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Transsion is offering 86.6 million Hong Kong shares at up to HK$38.80 to raise about US$428 million, with GIC as a cornerstone. The Shanghai-listed phone maker has cut its ask to under half of last year's reported target, and the book will show whether even that sells at the ceiling.
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Supabase raised $150 million and agreed to buy Turso, whose SQLite-compatible engine gives AI agents large numbers of small, isolated databases. The deal rests on Supabase's own count of agent-created databases, and Turso's customers now build on that bet.
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Lightspeed and Diffusion co-led $550m at a $15.6bn mark, which added $4.6bn of paper value in six months and only reads as ordinary software if $400m of ARR becomes about $1.56bn. Eighty of the Am Law 100 already buy.
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Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners co-led an initial close of $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation. One of Crusoe's six contracted gigawatts is running today.
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The Series F closed at a $30.9bn post-money valuation on one operating gigawatt and $140bn of contracted value spread across six. Turning the other five gigawatts into cash is what the new money bought.
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Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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ICONIQ, GIC and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan put $750 million into Ramp at a $44 billion valuation. Ramp is naming AI token spend as a third pillar of corporate cost, alongside people and vendors.
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The Series G prices Claude at roughly 27 times a run-rate figure Anthropic reports itself. The enterprise buyers supplying that growth have no public view of what the new shareholders received.
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Ode, the Anthropic-backed services company, has acquired Casper Studios. The scarce input in enterprise AI is the labour to get models into production, and model vendors are buying it.
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Ode's purchase of Casper Studios says the scarce thing in enterprise AI is people who can ship, and that the model vendor intends to employ them rather than refer to them.
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The deal folds a wholesale last-mile network reaching up to 1.4 million homes into a retail operator, and it does not close until the end of 2026.
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Ode puts engineers inside midsized companies to rebuild workflows around frontier models, and its private equity backers get a template they can run across hundreds of portfolio companies.
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