Hang Ten Systems adds $53 million to seed funding
AI startup Hang Ten Systems has added $53 million to its seed funding, five weeks after its initial $32 million seed round, bringing total funding to $85 million. Temasek's early-stage platform Xora led the new investment, the com...
Bain Capital Ventures raises $1.6 billion AI fund
Bain Capital Ventures has raised a $1.6 billion fund for early-stage companies across AI infrastructure, software, robotics and science. Partner Slater Stich said the firm is targeting businesses built for what it calls "life afte...
Arcee AI raises Series B at valuation above $1 billion
Arcee AI said it raised a Series B round valuing the open-weight model developer at more than $1 billion. Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and Emergence Capital led the round, with AI10 Ventures, Hitachi, IAG, Microsoft's M1...
Fortell raises $163 million for AI hearing-aid development
Fortell, an AI hearing-aid startup, recently raised $163 million from investors including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital and Antonio Gracias, according to its founder. The company aims to build hearing aids that distinguish importa...
Expanse raises €4.5 million for AI workload-planning platform
Expanse announced a €4.5 million seed round led by Crane Venture Partners to expand engineering, accelerate product development and widen adoption of its AI infrastructure platform. The company says its software predicts compute r...
PyTorch post details open-sourced FP8 FlashAttention work for Blackwell
A PyTorch engineering post said code for an MXFP8 extension to FlashAttention-4 has been open sourced for Blackwell GPUs. The work adds block-scaled FP8 forward and backward attention and, on internal LLM shapes, reported gains of...

