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AI Deals: Q3 2026

All AI industry deals announced during Q3 2026. Track investments, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.

Total Deals

175

Total Value

Undisclosed

Deal Types

7

Breakdown by Type

↗Investment
Bain Capital Ventures→Corridor

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI-enabled health benefits brokerage for US small businesses.

UndisclosedSep 21, 2026
↗Investment
Bek Ventures→FintechOS

FintechOS raised $28 million in equity and debt from existing backers and Santander CIB to expand its AI-native financial product platform in the US and Europe.

UndisclosedSep 21, 2026
↗Investment
Balderton Capital→Unit1 Studio

Unit1 Studio raised £20 million in equity and production financing led by Balderton Capital to expand touring avatar concerts built with AI-assisted CGI.

UndisclosedSep 21, 2026
↗Investment
SoftBank Group Corp.→OpenAI

SoftBank is issuing about $11.1 billion in high-yield bonds to fund a $10 billion OpenAI follow-on equity payment and refinance an existing bridge loan.

UndisclosedSep 21, 2026
↗Investment
Time Portfolio Asset Management→Enhans

Enhans raised a ₩51.2 billion (about $37 million) Series C round to scale its AgentOS enterprise AI agent platform, with strategic capital from major Korean conglomerates already using its software.

UndisclosedSep 20, 2026
☁Compute
Zerra DC→Anthropic

Anthropic agreed to lease capacity at Zerra DC’s planned Western Downs Digital Park in Queensland to run Claude inference in the Asia Pacific region.

UndisclosedSep 19, 2026
↗Investment
IDG Capital→Manus

Manus is reportedly raising a $500 million round at a $4 billion valuation to fund its relaunch as an independent AI agent company after regulators blocked its sale to Meta.

UndisclosedSep 18, 2026
↗Investment
Horizon Shine Growth (HSG)→Anew Labs

Anew Labs, a ByteDance spin off focused on AI driven drug design, raised US$290 million from Chinese venture firms with ByteDance retaining majority ownership.

UndisclosedSep 18, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→OpenAI

OpenAI is reportedly exploring a large new private funding round that would value the company around $1.2 trillion ahead of a potential IPO.

UndisclosedSep 18, 2026
↗Investment
Atreides Management→Crusoe

Crusoe raised a $3.9 billion Series F to expand vertically integrated AI data centers and modular "AI factory" units.

UndisclosedSep 17, 2026
↗Investment
Index Ventures→Emulate

Reports say Emulate, a London AI lab founded by ex‑DeepMind researchers, is negotiating a funding round of up to $700 million led by Index Ventures and Lightspeed at an estimated $3.7 billion valuation.

UndisclosedSep 17, 2026
↗Investment
Xora→Hang Ten Systems

Seed extension led by Xora with Mayfield and Aramco Ventures to scale Hang Ten Systems’ applied AI services and agentic software delivery platform for large enterprises.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
↗Investment
Endiya Partners→VerifAIX

Seed round co led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill VC to fund VerifAIX’s AI native chip verification platform built around its Formal Brain trust layer.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
☁Compute
Western Downs Digital Park→Anthropic

Anthropic agreed to a long‑term lease at the Western Downs Digital Park in Queensland, securing its first Australian AI datacentre capacity in a project valued around $31.9 billion.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
⊕Partnership
Emerald AI→Unknown

Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia formed the AI Energy Management Alliance with utilities and chip makers to standardize and promote grid‑responsive AI data centers, but no specific monetary commitments were disclosed.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
☁Compute
Zerra DC→Anthropic

Anthropic agreed to anchor Zerra DC’s Western Downs Digital Park in Queensland, an A$32 billion, 2.16GW hyperscale data center campus, with Anthropic covering grid connection costs for its leased capacity.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
◎Research
Government of Canada→LawZero

Canada and Germany jointly committed up to C$300 million in grant funding to LawZero to scale its Scientist AI safety research, open a Berlin office and build sovereign Canadian compute.

UndisclosedSep 16, 2026
↗Investment
Blackstone→Factory

Factory raised $200 million to scale its autonomous AI coding agents, lifting the San Francisco startup’s valuation to $5 billion.

UndisclosedSep 15, 2026
↗Investment
Moore Strategic Ventures→CADDi

CADDi raised $114 million in Series D funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to expand its manufacturing-focused AI data platform and global footprint.

UndisclosedSep 15, 2026
↗Investment
Playground Global→Delos Data

Delos Data raised $100 million to build networking chips and software that move data faster across heterogeneous AI data centers.

UndisclosedSep 15, 2026
→Acquisition
Meta→Stilla.ai

Meta is acquiring Stockholm-based AI agent startup Stilla.ai to strengthen its Meta Business Agent across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.

UndisclosedSep 13, 2026
↗Investment
DST Global→Higgsfield

Higgsfield raised a $400 million Series B round led by DST Global at a $5.4 billion valuation to scale its AI video and image generation platform and pay for compute.

UndisclosedSep 13, 2026
↗Investment
DST Global→Higgsfield AI

DST Global and a syndicate of institutional investors invested 400 million dollars in Higgsfield’s Series B to fund AI video infrastructure and product expansion.

UndisclosedSep 13, 2026
↗Investment
Bessemer Venture Partners→Harmoni

Bessemer Venture Partners led a $10 million Series A investment into Harmoni to scale its Factory Orchestration platform and HAL, a context-aware AI assistant for frontline manufacturing teams.

UndisclosedSep 9, 2026
⊕Partnership
United Nations Development Programme→United Nations Development Programme

UNDP and NEC signed a non monetary partnership to co develop AI and digital solutions for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and assessment of digital infrastructure risks.

UndisclosedSep 7, 2026
↗Investment
Qualcomm Ventures→Ultrahuman

Ultrahuman raised 70 million dollars in Series C financing led by Qualcomm Ventures to add on‑device AI compute and controller features to its smart ring platform.

UndisclosedSep 6, 2026
☁Compute
Tata Consultancy Services→HyperVault AI Data Center

TCS subsidiary HyperVault and partners plan to invest up to 700 billion INR to build a 1GW AI data center campus in Hyderabad dedicated to high-density GPU infrastructure for hyperscalers and AI companies.

UndisclosedSep 5, 2026
→Acquisition
Starman Holding→GoPro

Starman Holding will effectively acquire GoPro in a cash-and-stock merger that pays GoPro shareholders $285 million and refocuses the combined company on optical transceivers for AI data centers and defense markets.

UndisclosedSep 5, 2026
↗Investment
Insight Partners→Wonderful

Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C at a $5 billion valuation to expand its enterprise AI operating system and forward-deployed engineering teams.

UndisclosedSep 5, 2026
↗Investment
Krafton→India AI, robotics and deep tech startups (various)

Krafton earmarked $250 million over 3–4 years to back Indian AI, robotics and deep tech startups beyond its core gaming portfolio.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
LLDikti Wilayah I→MindlogicX Asia

MindlogicX Asia and Indonesia’s LLDikti Wilayah I formed a partnership to promote AI-enabled digital assessment platforms in universities across North Sumatra.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
↗Investment
Fuel Ventures→AI Score

London-based AI Score raised a €4.6 million seed round led by Fuel Ventures to build an enterprise platform for governing generative and agentic AI.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Cognition AI

Cognition AI is reportedly raising about US$1 billion at a US$47 billion valuation to scale Devin, its autonomous AI software engineer.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
↗Investment
Inovia Capital→Synthetix Labs

Synthetix Labs raised CAD 47 million in Series B funding led by Inovia Capital to expand its enterprise AI agent platform for financial services.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
UAE Artificial Intelligence Office→Google Gemini

The UAE Artificial Intelligence Office and Google are partnering to provide a free year of Google AI Plus access to university students across the UAE.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
↗Investment
Qualcomm Ventures→Ultrahuman

Ultrahuman raised US$70 million led by Qualcomm Ventures to scale its AI-driven health intelligence platform and wearable ecosystem.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
⟷Integration
Unknown→B3

B3 formally integrated Anysphere’s Cursor AI coding assistant into its software development process to speed delivery while maintaining governance over critical market infrastructure.

UndisclosedSep 4, 2026
↗Investment
BVF Partners→Superluminal Medicines

Superluminal Medicines raised a $60 million Series B to advance AI- and ML-driven GPCR drug discovery, including a lead obesity program entering Phase 1.

UndisclosedSep 3, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Resect AI

Resect AI raised 25 million dollars from undisclosed private equity investors to develop software that monitors and alters large language model behavior during generation.

UndisclosedSep 3, 2026
↗Investment
Delta-v Capital→HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer raised a $100 million Series B round to scale its AI security platform for models and agentic workloads.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
→Acquisition
Adobe→Rilo

Adobe acquired Indian AI workflow startup Rilo in a team-and-technology deal to enhance its agentic marketing and customer experience automation.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
⊕Partnership
Government of Pakistan→Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia agreed to deepen collaboration on AI, data governance and emerging technologies, with SDAIA and Pakistan’s IT ministry as lead implementing bodies.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
☁Compute
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking→Bull

EuroHPC JU and six European states are funding Bull to build the AMD‑based LUMI‑AI supercomputer for deployment at CSC’s data center in Kajaani, Finland.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
↗Investment
Breakthrough Energy Ventures→Physical Superintelligence

Seed investment in Physical Superintelligence PBC to build an AI physics platform, coinciding with the Fermi Explorer Mission’s plan to use PSI’s Get Physics Done system for an interstellar probe.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
↗Investment
Insight Partners→Wonderful

Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce and existing investors joining to scale its enterprise AI operating system.

UndisclosedSep 2, 2026
↗Investment
Sequoia Capital→Empirik

Empirik raised $21 million in seed funding as it launched an AI-driven observability platform that predicts outages by monitoring complex infrastructure changes.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
↗Investment
Sequoia Capital→AIR

AIR raised $50 million in seed funding to build a platform that discovers enterprise AI agents and vets their skills, plugins and add-ons for security risks.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
↗Investment
NextView Ventures→Fambot

Fambot raised a $3.5 million pre-seed round to develop an AI assistant that manages family logistics across email, calendars and messaging apps.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
☁Compute
Anthropic→Lambda

Anthropic will pay Nvidia‑backed cloud provider Lambda an estimated $35 billion over six years for 350MW of AI compute capacity at a new Texas data center leased by Nvidia and developed by Hut 8.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
◎Research
Dentsu→Dentsu

Dentsu, Dentsu Digital and SB Intuitions published results from a joint research program to develop a Japanese copywriting-focused generative AI using a 116k-example human-labeled dataset.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
→Acquisition
Palo Alto Networks→Console

Palo Alto Networks acquired AI automation startup Console in a cash and stock deal reported at around $500 million to integrate its agentic IT help desk technology into the Cortex security platform.

UndisclosedSep 1, 2026
☁Compute
AMD→HUMAIN

Saudi AI company Humain, backed by the Public Investment Fund, has activated an AMD and Cisco powered AI compute platform in the kingdom, with plans to scale toward 1 GW of capacity.

UndisclosedAug 31, 2026
↗Investment
Sam Lessin→TrustedRouter

Seed funding to grow TrustedRouter’s open source routing API that directs traffic across hundreds of AI models from dozens of providers.

UndisclosedAug 31, 2026
⊕Partnership
Salesforce→Salesforce

Salesforce and Anthropic are expanding their Claudeforce partnership to embed Claude models more deeply into Salesforce CRM, sales workflows, and Slack, with a public beta in September 2026.

UndisclosedAug 31, 2026
↗Investment
Market One Capital→Kazimi

Pre seed financing to scale Kazimi’s mobile security platform, which uses cryptographic proofs to verify app signals and improve AI related analytics.

UndisclosedAug 30, 2026
↗Investment
Index Ventures→Instinct

Instinct raised a $250 million Series B co led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5 billion valuation to scale its AI personal assistant and infrastructure.

UndisclosedAug 29, 2026
☁Compute
JPMorgan Chase→Lambda

Lambda raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to fund Nvidia GPU purchases for a dedicated Microsoft deployment.

UndisclosedAug 28, 2026
⊕Partnership
OpenAI→CARIVA

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launched an eight‑week AI accelerator program in Bangkok to support 10 local startups with credits, mentorship and access to frontier models.

UndisclosedAug 28, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Stellaria

Angel investors committed AED 25 million (about $6.8 million) in seed funding to Stellaria to scale its AI-powered geospatial intelligence platform.

UndisclosedAug 28, 2026
☁Compute
Micron Technology→Micron Technology US research labs

Micron will spend $10 billion on new US research laboratories focused on AI and advanced computing.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
⊕Partnership
Unknown→ElevenLabs

Karnataka’s government and ElevenLabs agreed to co‑design pilot projects that apply voice AI to skilling, public services, investor assistance and accessibility, with a focus on responsible and safe deployment.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
☁Compute
AWS→Nvidia

AWS will buy and deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs plus related infrastructure, including 100,000 GPUs for U.S. federal AI workloads, as part of an expanded global AI compute partnership.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
☁Compute
Anthropic→Nscale

Anthropic is committing $45 billion over six years to lease 460 MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin-based compute capacity from Nscale’s Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
☁Compute
Tarek Al Ashram Investment Firm→Africa Data Hub Holding Limited

MTN and Tarek Al Ashram created Africa Data Hub Holding to build roughly 150 MW of AI‑ready data centre capacity in South Africa and Nigeria as the first phase of a broader pan‑African AI infrastructure platform.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
↗Investment
SMBC Asia Rising Fund→fileAI

Strategic investment by SMBC’s and Singtel’s corporate venture funds to accelerate fileAI’s expansion in Japan and strengthen its AI-native platform for governed unstructured data workflows.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
→Acquisition
Nvidia→Hugging Face

Nvidia is reported to be buying open source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion to deepen its control over the model and tooling ecosystem built on its GPUs.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
↗Investment
Index Ventures→Instinct

Instinct raised a $250 million Series B, taking total funding to about $350 million and valuing its AI assistant business at roughly $2.5 billion.

UndisclosedAug 27, 2026
⊕Partnership
Salesforce→Salesforce customers

Expanded strategic partnership that makes Claude the default reasoning model across Slack AI and Salesforce Agentforce while exposing governed Salesforce data and workflows inside Claude.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
↗Investment
General Catalyst→Arga Labs

Arga Labs raised a $10 million seed round to build digital twin sandboxes where enterprise AI agents can be trained and tested safely.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
↗Investment
Susquehanna Venture Capital→Runable

Indian AI agent platform Runable raised a $21 million Series A to expand its autonomous agent that builds and grows small businesses.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
↗Investment
Jet Venture 1 SICAV→Hermetiq

Hermetiq raised a $2.2 million round led in part by Jet Venture 1 to use AI for diagnosing and ultimately repairing complex software build failures.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
⊕Partnership
Microsoft→HUMAIN

Microsoft and PIF backed HUMAIN formed a long term strategic partnership to integrate HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic language models into Microsoft’s Foundry and M365 Copilot ecosystems.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
↗Investment
Peak XV Partners→Ringg AI

Ringg AI raised an additional $10 million, extending its Series A to $15 million to scale enterprise voice and omni channel AI agents.

UndisclosedAug 26, 2026
↗Investment
Universal Music Group→Stability AI

Stability AI raised a 76 million dollar Series B to grow its suite of generative image, music and video models and deepen partnerships with major entertainment companies.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
↗Investment
Qatar Investment Authority→Gatik

Gatik raised 200 million dollars to expand its autonomous middle mile trucking operations after securing a multiyear commercial deal with PepsiCo.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
↗Investment
Apax Digital Funds→Alice

Alice raised a 140 million dollar growth round to scale its AI trust, safety and security platform used by major frontier model labs and large online platforms.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
⊕Partnership
Aramco→Undisclosed French industrial and technology firms

Aramco signed agreements and an MoU with unnamed French companies worth over 3.7 billion dollars, including projects that expand cooperation in industrial AI and digital technologies.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
↗Investment
Energize Capital→Emerald AI

Emerald AI raised a $150 million Series A led by Energize Capital and DCVC to turn AI data centers into flexible, grid responsive assets.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
◎Research
STMicroelectronics→ST–NUS HELIX Corporate Lab

STMicroelectronics and NUS are jointly funding the HELIX Corporate Lab to research low power edge AI chips and architectures.

UndisclosedAug 25, 2026
☁Compute
Anthropic→Volta

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

UndisclosedAug 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
Spotify→Spotify

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.

UndisclosedAug 4, 2026
↗Investment
General Catalyst→Endeavor Optical Networks

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.

UndisclosedAug 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
HUMAIN→HUMAIN

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.

UndisclosedJul 29, 2026
☁Compute
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority→Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority

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.

UndisclosedJul 29, 2026
⊕Partnership
Vishleshan AI→Vishleshan AI

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

UndisclosedJul 29, 2026
↗Investment
Battery Ventures→Hush Security

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

UndisclosedJul 28, 2026
☁Compute
AWS→Recursive Superintelligence

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.

UndisclosedJul 28, 2026
↗Investment
Frst→KelAI

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.

UndisclosedJul 28, 2026
⊕Partnership
Nvidia→Unknown

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.

UndisclosedJul 27, 2026
☁Compute
Nvidia→OpenAI

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.

UndisclosedJul 27, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT)

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.

UndisclosedJul 27, 2026
↗Investment
Nvidia→Safe Superintelligence

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.

UndisclosedJul 27, 2026
☁Compute
Nvidia→SK Telecom

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.

UndisclosedJul 26, 2026
↗Investment
Tencent→DeepSeek

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))

UndisclosedJul 25, 2026
⊕Partnership
SK Group→SK Group

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.

UndisclosedJul 25, 2026
↗Investment
Battery Ventures→AegisAI

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

UndisclosedJul 24, 2026
☁Compute
LG CNS→Namyangju Maseok IDC

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.

UndisclosedJul 24, 2026
☁Compute
OpenAI→Project Camellia data center campus

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.

UndisclosedJul 24, 2026
↗Investment
AMD→Anthropic

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.

UndisclosedJul 22, 2026
⊕Partnership
Amazon Web Services→Observe.AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 22, 2026
↗Investment
Unicorn India Ventures→Bioscan Research

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

UndisclosedJul 22, 2026
↗Investment
Prime Movers Lab→Humanoid

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.

UndisclosedJul 22, 2026
☁Compute
United States Department of State→Government of the Philippines

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.

UndisclosedJul 22, 2026
⊕Partnership
Siemens Digital Industries Software→The Exploration Company

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

UndisclosedJul 21, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Multiple AI infrastructure and startup projects in Shanghai (32 agreements)

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.

UndisclosedJul 21, 2026
↗Investment
Touring Capital→Infinity.inc

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

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
☁Compute
Unknown→Hut 8 Corp

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.

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
↗Investment
Kleiner Perkins→CuspAI

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.

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Oracle

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.

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
◆Hardware
SpaceX→Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)

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.

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
⊕Partnership
Cassava Technologies→Africa Data Centres

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

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
↗Investment
Kleiner Perkins→CuspAI

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.

UndisclosedJul 20, 2026
☁Compute
Government of Japan→Noetra

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.

UndisclosedJul 19, 2026
↗Investment
Jane Street→Etched

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.

UndisclosedJul 18, 2026
☁Compute
Meta→Anthropic

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

UndisclosedJul 17, 2026
☁Compute
SpaceX→U.S. Department of Defense

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

UndisclosedJul 17, 2026
↗Investment
Notable Capital→Beacon Security

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
↗Investment
Redstart Labs→Aina

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
↗Investment
Accel→Oak

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
⊕Partnership
Nvidia→Unknown

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
⊕Partnership
Altimetrik→Unknown

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.

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
⊕Partnership
Airbus→Mistral AI

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
⊕Partnership
Tata Consultancy Services→Unknown

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
↗Investment
CMB International→Whale

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.

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
◆Hardware
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries→Unknown

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

UndisclosedJul 16, 2026
◎Research
Unknown→Insilico Medicine

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
⊕Partnership
Alibaba→Apple

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
↗Investment
True Global Ventures→Sprouts.ai

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
↗Investment
Chemistry→Meticulous

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

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
↗Investment
BluVenture Holdings→E3 Electric.Ai

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
↗Investment
Tencent→DeepSeek

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

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
↗Investment
Lightspeed Venture Partners→Miles Wang AI drug discovery startup (unnamed)

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
⊕Partnership
Enterprise Singapore→Participating F&B SMEs in Singapore

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.

UndisclosedJul 15, 2026
→Acquisition
Unknown→Jet.AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
Seedcamp→Sherpa

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.

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
Halo Fund→Flex

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.

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
☁Compute
Reflection AI→Nebius Group

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

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
◆Hardware
Intel→Intel

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

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
Alibaba→PixVerse

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.

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
IDG Capital→LimX Dynamics

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.

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
Alibaba Group→AIsphere

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

UndisclosedJul 14, 2026
↗Investment
Group of Indian and global angel investors→Sortmyprep

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

UndisclosedJul 13, 2026
↗Investment
Icehouse Ventures→Hyades AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 13, 2026
↗Investment
Index Ventures→Marker

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.

UndisclosedJul 13, 2026
↗Investment
Unknown→Potentially AI PLC

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

UndisclosedJul 13, 2026
⊕Partnership
AWS→AWS

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.

UndisclosedJul 11, 2026
⊕Partnership
Beijing Shenzhou Guangda Technology (SINO EVERBRILLIANT)→AI computing infrastructure risk-management programs in China

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

UndisclosedJul 9, 2026
↗Investment
Hony Capital→Grace Investment Machine

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

UndisclosedJul 9, 2026
⊕Partnership
Unknown→UST

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

UndisclosedJul 9, 2026
→Acquisition
KKR→Empower AI

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

UndisclosedJul 8, 2026
↗Investment
IN Venture→Alta

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.

UndisclosedJul 8, 2026
↗Investment
Burda Principal Investments→Fleek

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.

UndisclosedJul 8, 2026
↗Investment
General Atlantic→SambaNova Systems

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.

UndisclosedJul 8, 2026
↗Investment
Acrew Capital→Savi Security

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.

UndisclosedJul 7, 2026
↗Investment
LUMO Labs→Whispp

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

UndisclosedJul 7, 2026
⊕Partnership
Unknown→Unknown

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.

UndisclosedJul 7, 2026
⊕Partnership
Unknown→Unknown

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.

UndisclosedJul 7, 2026
⊕Partnership
Valar Atomics→Valar Atomics

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.

UndisclosedJul 6, 2026
→Acquisition
Unknown→Jet.AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 6, 2026
↗Investment
Bonfire Ventures→Katalyze AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 6, 2026
⊕Partnership
Karandaaz Pakistan→D-Tech & Consultancy (DTC)

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.

UndisclosedJul 5, 2026
↗Investment
AlbionVC→geoSurge

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

UndisclosedJul 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
Rockwell Automation→Unknown

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

UndisclosedJul 4, 2026
↗Investment
Tencent→Kling AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 4, 2026
⊕Partnership
HCLTech→Undisclosed Europe-based Fortune Global 50 company

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.

UndisclosedJul 3, 2026
↗Investment
Insight Partners→Higharc

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.

UndisclosedJul 3, 2026
↗Investment
Geely Capital→Tripo AI

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

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
◆Hardware
Panlin Capital→SmartCore (Shenzhen Lingdong Xinguang Technology)

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

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
☁Compute
SpaceX→Reflection AI

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.

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
↗Investment
Denali Growth Partners→Luxonis

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

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
↗Investment
Fundomo→Oxmiq Labs

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

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
◆Hardware
Fundomo→Oxmiq Labs

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.

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
↗Investment
AVP→LinqAlpha

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

UndisclosedJul 2, 2026
↗Investment
Wei Haijun→Lingzhu AI

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

UndisclosedJul 1, 2026
↗Investment
Dragonfly→Venice AI

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

UndisclosedJul 1, 2026

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