Here are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?
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AWS is spending $50B build AI infrastructure for the US government
AWS has been working with the U.S. government since 2011 and is now building AI infrastructure specifically for the entity.
Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside
Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in it’s $500 million Series A round in 2024.
With an Intel recovery underway, all eyes turn to its foundry business
Intel added $20 billion to its balance sheet in Q3 but didn’t offer many details on the progress of its floundering foundry business.
Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads
Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient.
Veeam acquires data security company Securiti AI for $1.7bn
Veeam plans to offer Seucriti’s data command center product alongside its existing data resiliency products.
Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands
Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking to proprietary training data as a competitive advantage.
Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft
Nscale plans to deploy the chips over the next few years to three data centers in Europe and a fourth in the U.S.
Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab
Coco Robotics is working toward automating its fleet of delivery robots using its millions of miles of collected data.
OpenAI and Broadcom partner on AI hardware
OpenAI will purchase 10 gigawatts worth of AI accelerator hardware from semiconductor Broadcom.