How Did One AI Startup Snag $330M Today? 💸🤖🚀

TL;DR

• Lovable raised $330M at $6.6B valuation
• Galatek closed $30M Series A for AI automation
• LawVu added $9M, rolled out AI contracts
• OpenAI targets $100B raise, eye-popping valuation jump

HEADLINES

OpenAI plots mega raise toward $750B–$830B value 🧠🔗

Lovable secures $330M Series B for AI apps 💰🔗

Galatek raises $30M to automate fabs, labs 🧬🔗

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs launches with Nabla to build clinical agents 🩺🔗

Google Cloud upgrades Vertex AI Agent Builder governance 🛡️🔗

Mappedin debuts AI wayfinding chatbot at Calgary airport 🛫🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Insight Partners invested $23M in MEQ Solutions 🥩🔗

Movac invested $9M in LawVu ⚖️🔗

Angeleno Group invested in $50M round for IND Technology ⚡🔗

Energy Impact Partners backed grid-AI monitoring startup IND Technology 🌏🔗

Google Public Sector partnered with DOE on Genesis Mission 🏛️🔗

RAISES

Lovable raised $330M in a Series B led by global investors 📱🔗

Galatek raised $30M in a Series A from industrial-tech investors 🏭🔗

MEQ Solutions raised $23M in a Series A from Insight Partners 🥩🔗

LawVu raised $9M in growth funding from Movac 📑🔗

Ferronova raised $6M as a Series A top-up 🧪🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

AMI Labs unveiled AMI Labs–Nabla world-model agents 🧬🔗

Google Cloud launched enhanced Vertex AI Agent Builder governance 🛡️🔗

Mappedin launched geo-intelligent airport navigation chatbot at YYC 🛬🔗

Interview Kickstart announced Advanced Generative AI Program for engineers 📚🔗

Tech Mahindra rolled out Gemini Enterprise adoption program 🏢🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Vertex AI Agent Builder adds centralized tool governance for enterprise agents 🧰🔗

YYC AI Travel Chatbot offers real-time indoor navigation assistance 🗺️🔗

LawVu Lens embeds AI contract analysis into legal workflows 📄🔗

MEQ Camera uses AI imaging to grade red meat 📸🔗

EinsteinRx optimizes pharmacy dispensing with AI insights 💊🔗

METRICS

Lovable hit $6.6B valuation on Series B 📊🔗

Galatek secured $30M to scale AI automation 📈🔗

MultiSensor AI saw stock fall 16.28% on meeting delay 📉🔗

MEQ Solutions raised US$15M (AU$23M) Series A 📊🔗

Wellgistics Health set 1:1 token airdrop per share 🪙🔗

BENCHMARKS

JournalismAI survey found 75% of newsrooms use generative AI 📰🔗

TVBS logged 10B tokens of internal OpenAI usage 🧮🔗

Nxt AI 2026 expanded as global benchmark AI conference 🌐🔗

Disney–OpenAI Sora deal signaled studios embracing generative video workflows 🎬🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Lam Research stock jumped on AI memory equipment demand 💾🔗

Genesis Mission partners committed AI supercomputing for US science 🖥️🔗

Google Public Sector pledged Gemini compute for national labs ⚙️🔗

Theoriq (THQ) listed as AI agent infra token ⛓️🔗

VALUATIONS

OpenAI exploring valuation up to $830B in talks 🏷️🔗

Lovable priced Series B at $6.6B valuation 💵🔗

LawVu reached approximate $350M private valuation 📌🔗

MultiSensor AI traded around $26M public market cap 🏛️🔗

POLICY

DOE Genesis Mission formalized AI research partnerships framework ⚖️🔗

Thailand conference launched cross-border initiative on AI-driven scams 🌐🔗

State AGs pushed back on federal AI preemption 📻🔗

Hudson Institute event examined US–Taiwan AI governance coordination 🧭🔗

SOVEREIGN

DOE launched Genesis Mission with 24 AI partners 🏛️🔗

Korea’s 2026 startup policy doubled down on AI-heavy startup scaling 🇰🇷🔗

US–Taiwan AI forum highlighted strategic semiconductor–AI alignment 🇺🇸🔗

Trump administration reversed Nvidia AI chip export ban to China 🇨🇳🔗

SECTORS

Life sciences manufacturing deployed AI automation for cleanroom workflows 🧪🔗

Energy infrastructure adopted ML-based early fault detection ⚡🔗

Agrifood deployed AI meat quality grading systems 🥩🔗

Legal operations embedded AI contract analysis workspaces ⚖️🔗

Airports deployed AI chatbots for passenger navigation 🛫🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Interview Kickstart launched Advanced Generative AI upskilling program for engineers 🚀🔗