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DeepSeek has reportedly raised $7.4B at a valuation above $50B in its first external funding round. The unusual part is control: most investors are said to accept a five-year lock-up and no voting rights.

A $400M round would lift CuspAI to a $2.6B valuation and put generative materials discovery back on the AI funding map. The company points to customers including ASML and Meta, plus a PFAS project that screened 300 trillion molecular structures.

India’s AI debate is moving from adoption to control. Sarvam’s $234M raise at a $1.5B valuation gives the country’s best-known full-stack AI contender more room to build models, inference, and enterprise products for local languages and public-sector workflows.

Enterprise AI costs are becoming a usage-control problem, not just a GPU supply problem. PointFive’s $60M Series B brings total funding to $96M as it expands cloud and AI infrastructure cost management.

Beacon is applying AI-native operations to a classic roll-up playbook for essential software businesses. The new $225M Series C comes with a roughly one-acquisition-per-week pace and a claim of more than 50% EBITDA growth across owned businesses.

Suno raised a $400M Series D at a $5.4B valuation, more than doubling its valuation in about seven months. The round lands while major labels pursue copyright claims, including a recent allegation that more than 61,000 additional songs were used without permission.

Inherent is positioning itself around AI agents for scientific discovery, not routine enterprise automation. Louis Kirsch tied the launch to his DeepMind AI Scientist work, while company launch materials point to a $50 million seed round.

Cognition is arguing that coding agents do not have to collapse into model-lab features. It raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, with Devin’s run-rate revenue reaching $492M.

The Claude story is no longer only about model quality. Anthropic says its Series H raised $65B at a $965B post-money valuation, while run-rate revenue crossed $47B earlier in May.

The money is following the layer that decides which model gets each request. OpenRouter says weekly traffic rose 5x in six months to 25 trillion tokens, while its platform now spans 400+ models and more than 8 million users.

Bloomberg reports DeepSeek is pushing forward with a $10.29 billion financing round. Founder Liang Wenfeng publicly reaffirmed commitment to open-source AI development and AGI over short-term commercialization.

Anthropic is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a pre-money valuation exceeding $900 billion, propelled by ARR surpassing $45 billion — an ~80× year-over-year increase.