How Did AI Deals Top **$1.6B** Overnight? 🤖💸📈

TL;DR

• Skild AI circles $1B+ for robotics foundation models
• ChemLex and Curvestone AI fuel vertical AI infra
• Governments tighten AI rules on bias, oversight
• Anthropic, Databricks chase mega-valuations and IPO paths

HEADLINES

Skild AI in talks for $1B+ robotics round 🤖🔗

ChemLex raises $45M to scale autonomous chemistry lab 🧪🔗

Procure Ai secures $13M for autonomous procurement platform 📦🔗

Zhipu AI (Z.ai) debuts GLM-4.6V open-source multimodal VLM 🧠🔗

Rencore extends Series A to $15M for AI governance 🛡️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Sequoia Capital invested $35M in Nevis 💼🔗

MTech Capital invested $4M in Curvestone AI ⚙️🔗

Nyca Partners invested $4.2M in Asseta AI 🏦🔗

Comcast Ventures invested $13M in Resemble AI 🔊🔗

RAISES

Procure Ai raised $13M in a Seed round led by Headline 📑🔗

Rencore raised to $15M in a Series A extension from Hi Inov 🧾🔗

ChemLex raised $45M in a growth round led by Granite Asia 🧬🔗

DeepNode raised $5M across Seed and strategic rounds from ecosystem investors 🌐🔗

RAISING

Skild AI is looking to raise $1B+ growth round for robotics foundation models 🤖🔗

Databricks is looking to raise at $134B valuation for unified AI data platform expansion 🚀🔗

Anthropic is looking to raise at $300B valuation in dual-track private round and IPO prep 📈🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Zhipu AI unveiled GLM-4.6V tool-calling vision-language model 🧠🔗

Nagaland Digital Hub launched AI-powered Pulse civic news platform 📰🔗

Google AI Startup Hub launched GfS Hub at T-Hub Hyderabad 🚀🔗

Letwise AI released AI adoption guide for UK letting agents 🏠🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Honeyjar AI automates PR workflows with AI comms copilot 📣🔗

Emergent offers agentic AI app-builder for no-code products 🛠️🔗

Procure Ai delivers autonomous sourcing agents for enterprise procurement 📦🔗

METRICS

Skild AI targeting $14B valuation on planned robotics round 📊🔗

Anthropic valued at $183B, eyeing $10B 2025 revenue run rate 📈🔗

Databricks in talks around $134B private valuation 💾🔗

Curvestone AI processing billions of tokens quarterly across legal and financial workflows ⚙️🔗

Nevis already supports RIAs managing $50B+ in client assets 💼🔗

BENCHMARKS

Telangana Government set roadmap to launch 200+ AI startups 📘🔗

Google AI Startup Hub targeting ₹50 crore in startup capital attraction 📊🔗

Nebius Robotics Awards offering up to $100k AI compute credits 🤖🔗

AI Weekly Digest flags Anthropic’s $300B+ fundraising as frontier benchmark 🏁🔗

INFRA & COSTS

US Administration opens Nvidia H200 AI chip exports to China 💽🔗

Baidu weighs spinning off AI chip unit for IPO 🔌🔗

AI Energy Control SaaS optimizes renewables at Japanese chemical plant ⚡🔗

Congressional Internet Caucus hosts “Future of AI: Securing Energy for Innovation” 🏛️🔗

VALUATIONS

Skild AI circles new round at $14B valuation 🏷️🔗

Databricks rumored to raise at $134B private valuation 💾🔗

Anthropic valued $183B, exploring funding above $300B 📈🔗

Cursor hits $29.3B valuation after $2.3B raise 💻🔗

POLICY

California Lawmakers push state AI safeguards despite federal preemption threat ⚖️🔗

Trump Administration proposes “One Rule” executive order limiting AI regulation 🛑🔗

IndiaAI Mission orders LLM teams to fix demographic bias 🇮🇳🔗

UK Tech Secretary considers tougher regulation of AI chatbots 🇬🇧🔗

SOVEREIGN

Telangana Government launches dual-track AI hub and investment roadmap 🏛️🔗

Qatar hosts World Summit AI, showcasing national Fanar initiative 🌍🔗

India’s MeitY highlights digital economy growing 2x overall GDP pace 📈🔗

Taiwan Government advances AI Action Plan 2.0 and infrastructure initiatives 🇹🇼🔗

SECTORS

Energy & Manufacturing deployed AI energy control at chemical plant ⚙️🔗

Government Services deployed AI news platform Pulse for citizens 📱🔗

Mortgage Lending deployed AI underwriting for faster approvals, risk control 🏡🔗

Wealth Management deployed advisor copilots across end-to-end workflows 💼🔗

Procurement deployed autonomous sourcing agents for enterprise spend management 📦🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Mukund Jha launched Emergent’s agentic vibe-coding platform for builders 🚀🔗