According to Tech Startups, Anthropic, the AI safety-focused startup behind the Claude chatbot, made its first-ever startup investment by contributing $1 million to Goodfire’s Series A round.

LM Arena, a crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, has raised $100 million in a seed funding round that values the organization at $600 million ...

Like other venture firms, the size of Lightspeed’s investments have swelled alongside its funds. In March, Lightspeed led a $3.5 billion investment in the chatbot developer Anthropic, valuing it ...

Goodfire, an ambitious AI startup launched by seasoned entrepreneur Eric Ho, DeepMind alumnus Thomas McGrath, and Daniel Balsam, a founding engineer at RippleMatch, just raised a $50 million Series A ...

Elon Musk's xAI will use the fresh capital to fuel its AI development efforts, including its large-scale data centre projects ...

Our investments will likely be weighed more heavily there," said Hemant Mohapatra, a partner at global VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. “We're very active in the market." ...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has raised USD 10 billion in a mix of debt and equity funding, according to Morgan Stanley. The investment bank, which led the financing, announced ...

Led by Menlo Ventures, the funding round saw participation from Anthropic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and other investors.

The Silicon Valley investor speaks about the AI boom, venture capital’s funding glut, and the next big wave of frontier tech, ...

The overarching narrative of the past two years has been that AI models are getting cheaper for customers.Just take a look at ...

Venture capital investment has been key to the growth of AI. According to Crunchbase, the total amount of funding on a global basis was $100 billion in 2024, up 80% on a year-over-year basis.