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Capital raising by AI research labs, from seed rounds to mega-rounds, and the revenue and technical claims used to justify their valuations.
Reflection AI said it will release the weights for Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open model with 23 billion active, later this month. Red-teaming is unfinished, so every score so far is the company's own.
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OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is roughly $20bn below the widely cited $70bn figure, the Financial Times reported. The shortfall largely reflects whether revenue is counted gross or net, which leaves the two companies' headline numbers hard to compare.
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OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30 billion at about $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported, 64% above its $852 billion valuation in March. The price lifts the stakes of SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon on paper, while reports put the revenue run rate behind it anywhere from $40 billion to $70 billion.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, could make the $965 billion Claude maker the first frontier AI lab to list. For teams building on Claude, a listing would put the finances and legal exposure of a core supplier in front of public investors.
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Physical Superintelligence launches with $58 million, though the number that matters is the $15 million probe now riding on unreviewed physics its software produced in three days of mostly autonomous work.
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