Funding
Every funding round the atlas has on record for AI labs, 66 in all, newest first, each with its source.
2026
- SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) 7 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- $40 billion, reported and not yet confirmed
- Lead
- Apollo Global Management
- DeepSeek 6 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- Reported at least 80 billion yuan, about $12 billion, possibly up to 100 billion yuan, about $15 billion
- Valuation
- About 500 billion yuan, about $74 to 75 billion, possibly higher
- Lead
- CATL and Tencent with the largest commitments, plus Geely Auto, Monolith Management and Loyal Valley Capital
- Lambda 6 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- Up to $4 billion, reported
- Valuation
- $14.5 billion before the new money
- Lead
- Coatue Management and Blackstone
- OpenAI 5 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- Reported $30 billion, in talks and not closed
- Valuation
- About $1.4 trillion before the new money, reported
- Lead
- No lead chosen; in talks with MGX and other UAE funds and BlackRock
- Anthropic 1 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- Up to $42 billion in convertible debt financing, reported
- Lead
- Broadcom
- Anthropic 1 October 2026 reported
- Amount
- Reported IPO, size not confirmed, analysts model a possible $100 billion raise
- Valuation
- Investors cited by Bloomberg estimate fair value at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion
- Lead
- Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley as lead IPO advisers
- General Intuition 29 September 2026
- Amount
- $220M
- Valuation
- $6.2B
- Lead
- Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla, General Catalyst
- World Labs 28 September 2026
- Amount
- Acquisition by AMD (terms undisclosed)
- Lead
- AMD (definitive agreement; close expected by end 2026)
- Mistral AI 8 September 2026
- Amount
- EUR 3B ($3.5B)
- Valuation
- >EUR 21B (~$24B) post-money
- Lead
- Samsung Electronics; Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity
- OpenAI September 2026 reported
- Amount
- >=$30B (Bloomberg, talks)
- Valuation
- ~$1.4T (reported)
- Thinking Machines Lab September 2026 reported
- Amount
- $1B (reported talks)
- Valuation
- $40B (reported)
- Lead
- Accel (reported)
- Poolside 21 August 2026
- Amount
- $6B Nvidia licence fee plus $1B Nvidia investment
- Valuation
- $12B pre-money
- Lead
- Nvidia
- Pragmatik Labs 11 August 2026 reported
- Amount
- Not disclosed in announcement; reported hundreds of millions of USD (Gaorong and HSG ~$100M each, Tencent ~$20M)
- Valuation
- ~$2B (reported)
- Lead
- Gaorong Ventures and HSG (formerly Sequoia China); Tencent; Shanghai Future Industries Fund
- Discovery Loop 5 August 2026 reported
- Amount
- Not disclosed in announcement; ~$1B reported in talks (Business Insider), not confirmed closed
- Valuation
- ~$10B (reported, in talks)
- Lead
- Co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures (Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Doerr, Alphabet; Alphabet compute for 1+ year)
- Core Automation August 2026 reported
- Amount
- $500M (filing to raise; reported)
- Valuation
- ~$4B target (reported, The Information, 2026-05)
- Z.ai (Zhipu AI) 8 July 2026
- Amount
- $4B share placement
- Lead
- Priced at HK$1,588, about 13% below the prior close (Bloomberg, via Startup Fortune)
- Moonshot AI (Kimi) July 2026
- Amount
- undisclosed (closed above goal)
- Valuation
- $31.5B-$35B (reports differ)
- DeepSeek July 2026 reported
- Amount
- Second round, paused
- Valuation
- ~$71B pre-money (reported)
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) July 2026 reported
- Amount
- ~$5B (reported, undisclosed by Nvidia)
- Lead
- Nvidia (strategic investment plus Vera Rubin compute access)
- Mirendil 24 June 2026
- Amount
- $200M seed
- Valuation
- $1B
- Lead
- Co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with Nvidia
- Prometheus (Project Prometheus) 11 June 2026
- Amount
- $12B
- Valuation
- $41B
- Lead
- Not stated, and the investors named are Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global and Arch Venture Partners
- Lila Sciences June 2026 reported
- Amount
- ~$2B Series B (reported talks, Bloomberg)
- Valuation
- ~$8.5B pre-money (reported)
- Lead
- Anchored by CalPERS and Nvidia's NVentures (reported)
- DeepSeek June 2026 reported
- Amount
- ~50B yuan (~$7.4B), first outside round
- Valuation
- $52B-$59B post-money (reported)
- Lead
- Founder Liang (20B yuan), Tencent, CATL; national AI fund and others (reported)
- General Intuition June 2026
- Amount
- $320M Series A
- Valuation
- $2.3B
- Lead
- Khosla Ventures (General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos participated)
- Anthropic 28 May 2026
- Amount
- $65B Series H
- Valuation
- $965B post-money
- Lead
- Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia (plus Capital Group, Coatue, D1)
- Recursive Superintelligence 13 May 2026
- Amount
- $650M
- Valuation
- $4.65B
- Lead
- GV and Greycroft (Nvidia, AMD participated)
- Isomorphic Labs 12 May 2026
- Amount
- $2.1B Series B
- Lead
- Thrive Capital (Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, UK Sovereign AI Fund)
- Moonshot AI (Kimi) May 2026
- Amount
- $2B
- Valuation
- $20B
- Lead
- Long-Z Investments (Meituan), with Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile
- Periodic Labs May 2026 reported
- Amount
- >=$500M (reported, in progress)
- Valuation
- $7.5B (reported)
- Lead
- AMP (Anjney Midha's vehicle), reported
- Ineffable Intelligence 27 April 2026
- Amount
- $1.1B seed (largest European seed)
- Valuation
- $5.1B
- Lead
- Co-led by Sequoia and Lightspeed (Nvidia, DST, Index, Google, UK Sovereign AI Fund)
- Reflection AI April 2026 reported
- Amount
- undisclosed; about $2.6B raised in total (TechCrunch)
- Valuation
- $25B pre-money (TechCrunch); FT reported ~$20B talks in 2026-03
- Elorian April 2026
- Amount
- $55M seed
- Valuation
- $300M
- Lead
- Not stated (investors named are Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, 49 Palms and Nvidia, and angels include Jeff Dean)
- Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) 10 March 2026
- Amount
- $1.03B seed
- Valuation
- $3.5B pre-money
- Lead
- Co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Bezos Expeditions (Nvidia, Toyota, Samsung, Temasek also in)
- OpenAI March 2026
- Amount
- $122B committed (Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia per Wikipedia)
- Valuation
- $852B post-money
- Physical Intelligence (Pi) March 2026 reported
- Amount
- ~$1B (Bloomberg reported talks; a secondary site says closed by 2026-10)
- Valuation
- >$11B (reported)
- Lead
- Founders Fund, with Lightspeed, Thrive, Lux (reported)
- Thinking Machines Lab March 2026
- Amount
- undisclosed ('significant investment')
- Lead
- Nvidia, with a >=1 GW Vera Rubin compute deal for early 2027
- World Labs 18 February 2026 reported
- Amount
- $1B
- Valuation
- ~$5B (reported by Bloomberg; not confirmed)
- Lead
- Autodesk ($200M) with AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia, Sea
- Anthropic 12 February 2026
- Amount
- $30B Series G
- Valuation
- $380B
- Lead
- Coatue and GIC (per Wikipedia)
- SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) 2 February 2026
- Amount
- All-stock acquisition by SpaceX
- Valuation
- xAI $250B; combined SpaceX-xAI $1.25T
- Lead
- SpaceX
- humans& 20 January 2026
- Amount
- $480M seed
- Valuation
- $4.48B
- Lead
- SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Georges Harik; Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV, Emerson Collective
- MiniMax 9 January 2026
- Amount
- ~$619M Hong Kong IPO
- Z.ai (Zhipu AI) 8 January 2026
- Amount
- Hong Kong IPO (~$560M raised)
- Flapping Airplanes January 2026 reported
- Amount
- $180M
- Valuation
- ~$1.5B (reported)
- Lead
- GV, Sequoia, Index
- Core Automation 2026 reported
- Amount
- $100M (reported)
- Valuation
- $1B (reported)
- Lead
- Nvidia among backers (reported)
2025
- Unconventional AI 8 December 2025
- Amount
- $475M seed (first tranche of up to $1B)
- Valuation
- $4.5B
- Lead
- Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed (Lux, DCVC)
- Ricursive Intelligence December 2025 reported
- Amount
- $335M across two rounds (Dec 2025 and Jan 2026)
- Valuation
- ~$4B (reported)
- Sakana AI 17 November 2025
- Amount
- JPY 20B (~$135M) Series B
- Valuation
- $2.65B post-money
- Lead
- MUFG, Khosla, Macquarie, NEA, Lux, In-Q-Tel (mix of new and returning)
- Inception (Inception Labs) 6 November 2025
- Amount
- $50M seed
- Lead
- Menlo Ventures (Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, Microsoft M12, Snowflake, Databricks, NVentures; angels Andrew Ng and Andrej Karpathy)
- Physical Intelligence (Pi) November 2025 reported
- Amount
- $600M (Bloomberg Law, 2025-11-20; a Dealroom note's $388M at $4.1B figure does not match)
- Valuation
- $5.6B (reported)
- Lead
- CapitalG (reported), with Bezos, Thrive, Lux
- Prometheus (Project Prometheus) November 2025
- Amount
- $6.2B
- Lead
- Bezos (largest backer, per GeekWire)
- OpenAI 28 October 2025
- Amount
- Recapitalization into a public benefit corporation (Foundation ~26%, Microsoft ~27%)
- Valuation
- $500B (employee share sale, 2025-10)
- Reflection AI 9 October 2025
- Amount
- $2B
- Valuation
- $8B
- Lead
- Nvidia (with DST, B Capital, Lightspeed, Sequoia)
- Lila Sciences October 2025 reported
- Amount
- $115M Series A extension (Series A total $350M; $550M raised overall)
- Valuation
- >$1.3B (reported by Reuters)
- Lead
- Not stated (Nvidia's NVentures among the investors)
- General Intuition October 2025
- Amount
- $133.7M seed
- Lead
- Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst
- Anthropic September 2025
- Amount
- $13B Series F
- Valuation
- $183B
- Lead
- Iconiq, Fidelity, Lightspeed (per Wikipedia)
- Mistral AI September 2025
- Amount
- EUR 1.7B Series C (some reports said ~EUR 2B)
- Valuation
- EUR 11.7B
- Lead
- ASML
- Periodic Labs September 2025
- Amount
- $300M seed
- Valuation
- ~$1.3B
- Lead
- a16z, with DST, NVentures, Accel, Felicis
- Thinking Machines Lab July 2025
- Amount
- $2B seed
- Valuation
- $12B
- Lead
- Andreessen Horowitz (Nvidia, GV, Lightspeed, Conviction)
- Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) June 2025
- Amount
- $14.3B for 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI (brought in Wang)
- Lead
- Meta
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) April 2025
- Amount
- $2B
- Valuation
- $32B
- Lead
- Greenoaks (a16z, Lightspeed, DST, Alphabet, Nvidia participated)
- Isomorphic Labs 31 March 2025
- Amount
- $600M, first external round
- Lead
- Thrive Capital (GV; Alphabet follow-on)
- Reflection AI March 2025
- Amount
- $130M (seed plus Series A)
- Valuation
- ~$545M
2024
- World Labs September 2024 reported
- Amount
- $230M (reported)
- Valuation
- ~$1B (reported)
- Lead
- a16z, NEA, Radical Ventures, with NVentures, AMD Ventures, Adobe Ventures and Databricks Ventures
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) September 2024
- Amount
- $1B
- Valuation
- $5B
- Lead
- Backers incl. a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, SV Angel
- Magic 29 August 2024
- Amount
- $320M (total raised $465M at the time)
- Lead
- Eric Schmidt, CapitalG, Atlassian, Elad Gil, Jane Street, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Sequoia and others (lead not stated)
2023
- Essential AI December 2023
- Amount
- $56.5M Series A (about $65M total with an $8.3M seed)
- Lead
- March Capital (AMD, Franklin Venture Partners, Google, KB Investment, NVIDIA, Thrive Capital)