Kuaishou’s AI video unit Kling has raised $2.8B at an $18B valuation, turning generative video into one of China’s largest current AI capital stories. The round could still expand to $3B and lower Kuaishou’s stake to 68.33%.
Together AI raised $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation, a large bet that open-model infrastructure can undercut closed-model economics. The company says annual bookings topped $1.15 billion last quarter and plans to expand capacity about 50-fold over five years.
8090 Labs has raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for an AI coding agent aimed at corporate programming teams. The pitch is not casual vibe coding, but production software with audit trails and enterprise controls.
Gradial raised $65M at a $675M valuation to automate marketing workflows across enterprise tools. The company says T-Mobile cut campaign execution time by 80-90% with 99% accuracy.
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.