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According to Techstartups, artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded last year by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI, is in talks for a new round of financing with a valuation of at least $20 billion. The valuation is a fourfold increase from its $5 billion valuation when it completed a $1 billion financing in September last year. The exact amount of the financing has not yet been determined and the relevant negotiations are still in the early stages...
据Techstartups报道，由OpenAI前首席科学家Ilya Sutskever于去年创立的人工智能初创公司Safe Superintelligence(SSI)正在洽谈新一轮融资，估值至少达200亿美元。 这一估值较其去年9月完成的10亿美元融资时的50亿美元估值增长了4倍。目前融资具体金额尚未确定，相关谈判仍处于早期阶段。
Shares in Nvidia plunged amid concerns about Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, wiping a record amount of market value off the world's largest company. Nvidia shares fell as much as 13%, wiping about $465 billion off its market value, breaking the record of a 9% drop last September, when it lost about $279 billion in market value, the largest in U.S. stock market history.
On January 27th, according to Bloomberg, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a competitive AI model, raising concerns about its threat to the US technology leadership, and Japanese chip stocks fell sharply. Nvidia supplier Advantest fell 8.2%, Disco Corp fell 2.9%, SoftBank Group fell 5.4%, and data center cable makers Furukawa Electric and Fujikura Ltd both fell more than 8%. Market participants pointed out that the huge investment returns of large technology companies in the AI field are ques...
Former Coinbase CTO Balaji said in a post that many startups may try to raise funds in the future by issuing tokens as explicit crypto equity. He pointed out that from a technical perspective, there are obvious advantages to representing equity on the blockchain, allowing investors to check pricing through wallet holdings, APIs, and track it on a blockchain browser. At the same time, founders can more easily execute operations such as dividend distribution, repurchase and vesting plan management...
Habto, a Japanese fintech startup, announced on Wednesday that it raised $11.70 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors and DG Daiwa Ventures, with participation from Anthemis Group and Scrum Ventures. Existing backers include Saison Capital, GMO VenturePartners, Cherubic Ventures and Epic Angels. The funds raised are aimed at supporting Habto to expand its digital banking platform.
Blockchain startup Magic Labs announced Thursday that it is launching a new cross-chain network called Newton, a platform designed to make using decentralized applications across multiple blockchains as seamless as browsing the internet. By leveraging Polygon's decentralized AggLayer and chain power builder packages, Newton will allow developers to build dapps that run on different chains without requiring users to maintain different wallets.
According to the New York Times, artificial intelligence startup Physical Intelligence plans to announce a $400 million funding round on Monday. The round was led by Jeff Bezos and involved venture capital firms including Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, as well as investors including OpenAI, Redpoint Ventures and Bond.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of $40 billion.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of $40 billion.
