What Pushed AI Funding Past **$1.6B** Today? 🤖💸🚀

TL;DR

• Mega-rounds and seeds pushed AI funding past $1.6B
• VC dry powder converging on India’s AI stack
• Enterprise tools like Claude-in-PowerPoint go mainstream
• Regulators tighten rules on AI chatbots and deepfakes

HEADLINES

Major VCs coordinate over $1B India AI push 💰🔗

ShareCafe analysis warns AI panic hitting private equity software 📉🔗

Malaysia Sun flags trillion‑dollar crash, AI herd risks ⚠️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Neysa secured $1.2B for India AI cloud ☁️🔗

Google.org granted $1M to MBZUAI Arabic AI research 🌍🔗

Anthropic raised $30B Series G at $380B 🧠🔗

RAISES

mea Platform raised €42.2M growth round from SEP 📊🔗

Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M in mega AI‑chip round 💾🔗

Flapping Airplanes raised $180M seed for data‑efficient AI 🧬🔗

Quantum Rise raised $15M seed to automate consulting 📈🔗

Inspired Learning AI raised £220k angel to grow GCSE app 🎓🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Anthropic launched Claude in PowerPoint and Excel 📊🔗

eBiotech.ai unveiled GMP Intelligence System™ for pharma compliance 💊🔗

ASII launched AU$15M AI‑enabled National Digital Twin 🛰️🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Neysa Velocis AI acceleration cloud with GPU‑as‑a‑Service ⚙️🔗

mea Platform agentic AI automating (re)insurance workflows 📑🔗

Claude in PowerPoint builds on‑brand decks inside Office 🧠🔗

Inspired Learning AI GCSE app with live AI marking 📚🔗

METRICS

Top VCs plan $300–500M each for India AI 📊🔗

Korea startups filed 67% of finance AI patents 📑🔗

Infosys running 4,600 AI projects, 500+ agents 📈🔗

India now 100M weekly ChatGPT users, says Altman 🇮🇳🔗

BENCHMARKS

Aakrit Vaish says 80% India AI deals are early‑stage 📘🔗

AI Impact Summit shifts series focus from safety to impact 📊🔗

MBZUAI project targets low‑resource Arabic AI benchmarks 🌐🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Neysa plans extra $600M debt for AI infrastructure 🏗️🔗

ASII building $15M AI geospatial twin for agriculture 🌾🔗

Neysa Velocis offers GPUaaS to cut model costs 💻🔗

Canada nuclear‑AI forum convenes on data‑centre power and AI growth ⚡🔗

VALUATIONS

Ricursive Intelligence valued at $4B pre‑product after raise 🏷️🔗

Anthropic hits $380B valuation on $30B Series G 💸🔗

Flapping Airplanes lands $180M seed, lab‑first valuation approach 🚀🔗

India seed rounds priced $10–20M inception valuations 📐🔗

POLICY

UK Government adds AI chatbots to Online Safety Act ⚖️🔗

Irish DPC opens EU data probe into Grok deepfakes 🛡️🔗

India Education Ministry advances AI‑in‑education roadmap under NEP 2020 🏫🔗

eBiotech.ai positions GMP Intelligence as new compliance category 📋🔗

SOVEREIGN

Odisha Government showcases “AI‑to‑Impact” pavilion, sovereign AI strategy 🏛️🔗

India AI Impact Summit elevates Global South cooperation on AI 🌐🔗

MBZUAI strengthens Arabic AI capacity with $1M grant 🏙️🔗

IndiaAI Mission uses summit to anchor sovereign AI agenda 🧭🔗

SECTORS

Agriculture deployed AI geospatial twin for national farm planning 🌱🔗

Finance uses AI patents for trading surveillance 🏦🔗

Insurance deploys agentic AI underwriting workflows 🛡️🔗

Pharma adopts GMP Intelligence System™ for compliance insights 🧪🔗

Education scales AI‑marked GCSE revision via mobile 📘🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Aakrit Vaish launched Activate, a $75M India AI venture fund 🌟🔗