AI Deals: Q3 2026

Anthropic commits around $10 billion over six years for Nvidia‑powered cloud compute from Volta, delivered via Bitdeer’s Norway data center.

Spotify adds Merlin’s 30,000 independent labels to its forthcoming AI covers and remixes product, building on an earlier pact with Universal Music Group.

EON secures a $10.75 million seed round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build a laser satellite network that links hyperscale and AI data centers across continents.

Al Nassr FC signs Humain as a sponsor and AI partner, adding shirt branding, training center naming rights and an AI collaboration program for elite football.

SDAIA and Nvidia launched a generative AI Center of Excellence and the ALLAM Arabic chat application to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s position as a regional AI hub.

Vishleshan AI becomes an Anthropic Claude Partner Network member to deliver Claude-based AI solutions for large enterprises in India and beyond.

Series A funding to expand Hush Security’s identity-based governance platform for AI agents and other non-human identities in large enterprises.

Recursive Superintelligence signed a multi‑year agreement with Amazon Web Services worth about $410 million to secure priority access to high‑end compute for its self‑improving AI research systems.

Seed round to build KelAI’s autonomous AI research engine that runs the full hedge fund research loop from idea generation to live signal monitoring.

Nvidia and more than 30 technology and cybersecurity players formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to jointly develop open models, tools and frameworks for AI security in response to rising concerns after the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.

Nvidia is negotiating a 250 billion dollar financing guarantee to back OpenAI’s lease and construction debt for a 10 gigawatt AI data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, developed by SoftBank’s SB Energy.

CXMT’s Shanghai STAR Market IPO raised at least 8.6 billion dollars and its shares jumped over 450 percent on debut, reflecting surging investor demand for AI related memory capacity.

Nvidia is making an equity investment of roughly $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence and providing access to its next‑generation Vera Rubin systems, boosting the lab’s compute capacity by about 10x.

NVIDIA and SK Group plan a $500B‑plus partnership to build a 2GW AI factory in Korea and co‑develop next‑generation HBM memory using NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform.

DeepSeek had been seeking at least 10 billion yuan in a follow on round at a roughly 480 billion yuan valuation, but has paused closing the deal after founder Liang Wenfeng’s leaked remarks about reliance on Nvidia chips and China’s AI lag sparked controversy.([business-standard.com](https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/deepseek-puts-fundraising-on-hold-after-founder-s-remarks-go-viral-report-126072501034_1.html))

South Korea outlined about $950 billion in AI chip supply, data center and physical AI partnerships over five years between SK Group, Samsung, NAVER and global tech firms including Nvidia, Broadcom, Brookfield, Anthropic and Waymo following an AI summit in San Francisco.

Series A funding to grow AegisAI’s autonomous email security agents and enterprise go to market.

First 30 billion won equity and land-acquisition financing for the X-AI Smart Data Center project in Namyangju, backed by LG CNS and Korean financial investors.

OpenAI commits roughly $20 billion to build its first self‑developed 3.2 GW AI data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, supported by a long‑term power and tax agreement with Georgia Power and local officials.

AMD is reported to be investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a long-term agreement to supply tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI server capacity starting in 2027.

Observe.AI and AWS enter a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-market and scale AI agents for contact centers and customer experience on AWS infrastructure.

Unicorn India Ventures leads a $1 million seed round in Bioscan Research to expand its AI-enabled brain injury detection devices to new markets.

Humanoid raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation to scale deployment and manufacturing of its industrial humanoid robots and KinetIQ AI platform.

A $6.5 million US-funded contract provides the Philippines access to the Rhombus AI Concierge platform for strategic national security analysis, alongside a domestic DICT–Land Bank partnership to deploy AI tools for MSME financing.

Siemens supplies its Xcelerator industrial software stack to The Exploration Company to accelerate design and manufacturing of reusable Nyx spacecraft.

32 AI-related projects signed at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai with total planned investment exceeding 40.9 billion yuan across infrastructure, agents, robotics and AI-for-science.

Seed round to scale Infinity’s Ignition AI agent, which automatically generates optimized inference software stacks for new AI chips.

Second 15-year, $9.8 billion IT lease with an unnamed investment-grade customer that fully commercialises Hut 8’s 1 GW Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas.

CuspAI raised a $450M Series B to scale its MIRA AI materials discovery platform and launch the AI Materials Foundry, a 45+ member network spanning Nvidia, Meta and major industrial labs.

Oracle is issuing $20 billion in new equity to shore up its balance sheet and fund AI-focused cloud and data center investments tied to a large contract backlog, including work with OpenAI.

SpaceX has reportedly placed a roughly $52 billion order with Foxconn to manufacture over 13,000 Nvidia GB300 AI server racks for its Colossus 1 and 2 data centers.

Partnership to make Johannesburg the first Azure ExpressRoute Metro location in Africa, delivered via Cassava’s Africa Data Centres and Liquid C2 units.

Large Series B round to grow CuspAI’s generative AI platform for materials discovery and fund its AI Materials Foundry network with partners like NVIDIA, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai and ASML.

Japan is committing up to ¥1 trillion (~$6.2 billion) over five years to build the Noetra sovereign physical AI program and a national 'Vera Rubin' AI factory powered by Nvidia hardware.

Etched is reportedly negotiating two new equity rounds that would value the AI chip startup at about $20 billion and $10 billion, led respectively by Jane Street and Sequoia Capital.

Meta is negotiating to lease up to $10 billion of AI data center compute capacity to Anthropic over two years.

SpaceX is negotiating to sell dedicated AI data-center capacity to the Pentagon in a multi‑billion‑dollar compute deal.

Seed investment to scale Beacon Security’s agentic cybersecurity platform and data layer for human and AI security teams.

Funding round to build and ship Aina’s hardware interfaces like the Dune macro pad that trigger and control AI agents for everyday workflows.

Seed funding to scale Oak’s AI-powered Identity Operating System for unified governance of human, machine and AI identities.

Multi-company collaboration to deploy Nvidia-powered 'physical AI' robots across Japanese manufacturing and service environments.

Altimetrik is partnering with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence to help shape standards and best practices for enterprise-scale AI using its ALTi AIOS platform.

Airbus will use Iliad-owned Scaleway cloud infrastructure to deploy AI tools co-developed with Mistral for sensitive industrial and defence workloads.

TCS is launching a Bengaluru industrial AI lab using Nvidia platforms to accelerate AI adoption in manufacturing and industrial automation.

Whale raised a $40 million Series C3 extension to scale its AI Operating System for enterprise operations globally, bringing its total Series C funding to $100 million.

Collaboration between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nvidia to provide modular, Nvidia DSX-aligned cooling and power infrastructure for large-scale AI data centers.

AI-driven discovery and development partnership under which Insilico and Bora will use Insilico’s Pharma.AI platform and Bora’s CDMO capabilities to generate and commercialize multiple drug candidates with up to $2.5B in potential milestone value.

Apple is partnering with Alibaba’s Qwen and Baidu’s AI services to localize Apple Intelligence for China following regulatory approval by the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Pre-Series A funding for Sprouts.ai’s AI-driven B2B sales platform that unifies customer data and automated workflows across CRM and marketing tools.

Series A funding to expand Meticulous’s AI-driven testing platform that validates AI-generated code changes via simulated user flows and edge cases.

Series A equity and debt funding of ₹100 crore (about $10.39M) to scale E3 Electric.Ai’s AI-enabled electric scooter platform and India-wide market expansion.

DeepSeek is reportedly negotiating a $1.5 billion raise at a $71 billion valuation ahead of a planned IPO.

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is reportedly in talks to raise roughly $200 million at a $2 billion valuation for a new AI drug discovery startup, with Lightspeed Venture Partners discussing a lead role.

Enterprise Singapore and UOB are partnering on a two‑year programme to help at least 200 F&B businesses integrate AI and digital systems across their operations.

Jet.AI signed a non-binding LOI for a $320M enterprise-value merger with a private operating company and plans to spin off its AI data-center business into a separate public entity.

Sherpa raised about €2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-native platform for orchestrating external workers and AI agents for enterprise clients.

Flex raised $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Halo Fund at an implied $1.2 billion valuation to expand its AI-native private banking platform for mid-sized business owners.

Reflection AI commits to spend over $1 billion with Nebius for Nvidia-powered AI compute capacity through 2029.

Intel is investing €5 billion in its Leixlip, Ireland fab to expand production of Intel 3 server chips for AI and high‑performance computing.

PixVerse raised a $439 million Series C extension at a valuation above $2 billion to expand its AI video and real‑time world model platform into interactive entertainment.

Pre‑IPO equity round for Chinese humanoid robotics firm LimX Dynamics to fund embodied AI R&D and large‑scale deployment ahead of a planned listing.

Series C funding for AIsphere, maker of AI video platform PixVerse, to scale video foundation models, real‑time world models and global commercialization.

Sortmyprep raised a $350,000 pre‑seed round from angel investors to strengthen its AI tutor infrastructure and expand curricula and markets.

Hyades AI received NZ$910,000 in pre‑seed funding plus a NZ$400,000 government grant to expand its geospatial AI mapping and data‑management platform.

Marker raised a $13 million seed round to build an AI‑assisted word processor designed to support human writers instead of fully automating content generation.

Public-market fundraising of approximately £4.9m alongside Potentially AI’s re‑admission to trading on London’s AIM market.

AWS and Nvidia are partnering to offer serverless fine-tuning of Nemotron 3 open-weight language models via Amazon SageMaker AI, letting enterprises customize these models without managing GPU clusters.

Strategic partnership to co-develop insurance-backed AI computing security solutions for data centers and token factories in China.

Series A funding for GIM to build multi-agent 'Visionary Machine' systems that autonomously generate and test investment hypotheses in live capital markets.

UST and Anthropic formed a strategic alliance to embed Claude models across UST’s platforms and train 20,000 employees on Claude globally.

Empower AI is acquiring Highlight Technologies to strengthen AI-driven and cloud-enabled mission solutions for US federal agencies.

Alta raised a $25 million Series A round led by IN Venture to expand its AI go‑to‑market platform composed of coordinated agents running on a shared Company Brain.

Fleek closed a $25 million Series B to expand its AI vision-language system and marketplace that automate grading, pricing and routing of secondhand garments worldwide.

SambaNova raised a $1 billion Series F round led by General Atlantic to expand its premium AI inference infrastructure and support new deployments such as JPMorganChase’s on-prem systems.

Seed investment into Savi Security to fund an AI-powered app that detects and interrupts highly realistic scam calls, texts and messages in real time.

Follow-on funding to expand Whispp’s on-device voice reconstruction AI, enhance its proprietary models and deepen integrations with global device makers.

Intergovernmental agreements between India and Indonesia to cooperate on artificial intelligence, telecoms, digital public infrastructure and startups as part of a broader strategic partnership package.

Bilateral agreement in principle between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to expand their digital corridor via new submarine and terrestrial connectivity, discussed at the AI for Good Global Summit.

Valar Atomics and Nvidia agreed to explore a 30 MW nuclear-powered AI data center in Utah using the Ward250 reactor and Nvidia’s data center technology.

Jet.AI shareholders approved a business combination that spins out flyExclusive while leaving Jet.AI as a pure-play AI infrastructure and cloud services company.

Seed funding for Katalyze AI, which provides an agentic operating system used by major pharma companies to run AI agents across manufacturing and quality workflows.

Karandaaz Pakistan and D‑Tech & Consultancy formed a strategic partnership to develop My Intelligent Assistant, an AI companion embedded in digital finance apps to improve usability and inclusion.

Seed round to expand geoSurge’s Corpus Engineering platform that optimizes how brands are represented inside generative AI systems.

Rockwell Automation and Cisco formed a strategic partnership to co‑develop and demonstrate AI‑ready, software‑defined manufacturing solutions for Indian factories.

Kuaishou is spinning off its Kling AI video-generation business into an independent company backed by up to $3 billion from Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and other investors, with a mandated IPO by 2031.

HCLTech signed a 5.5–6 year AI‑led digital workplace and enterprise network transformation contract with a Europe‑headquartered Fortune Global 50 client worth about US$1.14 billion.

Higharc raised a $95 million Series C led by Insight Partners to scale its AI-native home design and estimating platform and deepen a new supply-chain partnership with US LBM.

Series A3 equity financing into Tripo AI to expand its 3D foundation models and world‑model research and commercialization.

Angel++ funding to scale SmartCore’s silicon‑photonics optical I/O chiplets for high‑bandwidth AI data center interconnects.

Multi‑year compute lease giving Reflection AI priority access to Nvidia GB300 'Blackwell Ultra' GPUs in SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center, worth up to $6.3B through 2029.

Series A funding to expand Luxonis’s OAK camera production and OAK4 perception platform for robotics and industrial ‘physical AI’ applications.

Series A investment into Oxmiq Labs to scale its OxCore licensable GPU and AI architecture for custom AI chips and data centers.

Series A funding to commercialize OxCore, Oxmiq’s licensable AI GPU architecture aimed at chipmakers that want custom accelerators without full in‑house design cycles.

Series A funding to scale LinqAlpha’s multi‑agent AI platform that converts institutional research into actionable signals for global public markets.

Angel round led by early Musical.ly investor Wei Haijun to scale Lingzhu AI’s zero‑code app creation platform.

Series A funding to expand Venice AI’s privacy‑first, uncensored AI assistant and infrastructure, including GPU capacity.