Zero Infinity Partners announces $156 million infrastructure technology fund
Zero Infinity Partners announced $156 million in commitments for its second fund, which will invest in early-stage companies applying technology to physical infrastructure. The firm said the fund is 50% larger than its predecessor...
BottleCap releases reasoning model with shorter outputs and an accuracy tradeoff
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a version of Qwen3.8-27B tuned to use fewer tokens while working through answers. BottleCap reports an average 37.2% reduction in thinking tokens across 12 benchmarks, while avera...
PicoJool raises $27.5 million to commercialize optical links for AI clusters
PicoJool raised $27.5 million in a Series A round led by Socratic Partners, bringing its total funding to $39.5 million. The startup plans to use the money to expand its teams in the United States and Taiwan, qualify products with...
Hunyuan researchers release language model that activates 13 billion parameters
The researchers behind Hunyuan-A13B say they have released the language model as open source. It has 80 billion parameters in total but uses 13 billion for each response, an architecture intended to reduce the computing needed to ...
Clastix raises €2.9 million for Kubernetes infrastructure software
Italian infrastructure software company Clastix has raised €2.9 million in its first external funding round, led by CDP Venture Capital with participation from Mistral and Vertis SGR. Clastix plans to use the seed capital for prod...
Cognex agrees to acquire RealSense for about $500 million
Cognex has agreed to buy RealSense for about $500 million in cash, adding cameras and software that help robots judge the distance and position of objects. Cognex plans to fund the purchase with cash and investments on its balance...


