Meta and NVIDIA announced a multiyear strategic AI infrastructure partnership on February 17. Meta will deploy millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, plus Grace CPUs in a first-of-its-kind standalone server deployment. Analysts peg the deal at ~$50B.
World Labs, the startup from AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion to scale its spatial intelligence technology. Autodesk leads with $200M, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD.
OpenAI is finalizing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft. The deal would value the AI company at over $850 billion—a record for any private tech company.
Meta and AMD announced a multi-year partnership to deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, valued at over $60 billion, in Meta's boldest move yet to diversify AI compute beyond Nvidia.
At the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi February 19–21, tech commitments surpassed $400B. OpenAI partnered with TCS for data center capacity, and Anthropic teamed with Infosys to deploy Claude across Indian enterprises.
OpenAI is close to finalizing a record-breaking $100 billion funding round backed by Amazon, SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Microsoft, pushing its valuation above $850 billion in the largest AI startup financing in history.
Meta and NVIDIA officially announced a multiyear, multigenerational strategic partnership on February 17, deploying millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs alongside the first large-scale Grace-only CPU deployment—part of Meta's $600B US investment commitment by 2028.
OpenAI is finalizing a record-breaking $100B+ funding round valuing the company at over $850B. Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft are among the key investors, marking the largest private tech fundraise in history.
Claude Code has grown to over $2.5 billion in annualized run-rate revenue as of February 2026, more than doubling since its first six months. The AI coding agent now accounts for over half of all enterprise spending on Anthropic and users average 20 hours per week with the product.
NVIDIA and Meta announced a multiyear partnership on February 17 for millions of GPUs and Meta becoming the first to deploy NVIDIA Grace CPUs as standalone chips at scale in its AI data centers.
OpenAI is in the final stages of closing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon ($50B), SoftBank ($30B), Nvidia ($20B), and Microsoft—more than doubling its previous $40B raise from March 2025.
Google.org announced a new $30 million global open call for AI-for-science projects on February 18, 2026. Applications are open through April 17, 2026, with focus areas in health and life sciences, crisis resilience, and environmental science.