Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
A research view, not advice. Amounts are what the announcing article reported. Private valuations are what the last round implied and go stale quickly. Rows marked reported are press reports of talks or unconfirmed figures; they are shown but left out of the totals. Listings and mergers are listed at the bottom and left out too. Every investor named here has a page under Investors, the skeptics and short sellers are further down, and all of it is downloadable as JSON.
One row per camp. Dot size grows with the amount and is capped, so the $100B rounds read as labels rather than circles. Hover or tap a dot for the round; the two largest rounds in view are labeled.
The Period control above rescales this axis; click a year to start there.
Each lab counts toward its primary camp. Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Tesla fund their AI from operating cash and have no rounds here, so the LLM and robotics bars understate them.
Total primary raises and the number of rounds, from what the atlas records. Cells are tinted by size within the whole table.
| Year | LLM scaling | World models | Physics AI | Experience / RL | Physical AI | Other substrates | All camps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $200M1 round | $20M1 round | $150M1 round | $370M3 rounds | |||
| 2023 | $15.25B6 rounds | $141M1 round | $32M1 round | $70M1 round | $60M3 rounds | $15.55B12 rounds | |
| 2024 | $22.75B9 rounds | $1.58B6 rounds | $60M2 rounds | $250M3 rounds | $1.69B6 rounds | $303M3 rounds | $26.63B29 rounds |
| 2025 | $70.30B10 rounds | $1.43B4 rounds | $1.82B11 rounds | $135M1 round | $3.42B9 rounds | $135M4 rounds | $77.24B39 rounds |
| 2026 | $222.90B6 rounds | $4.91B7 rounds | $13.26B6 rounds | $1.28B3 rounds | $4.28B6 rounds | $96M2 rounds | $246.72B30 rounds |
Disclosed short positions, published sell-side doubts, price signals in the credit markets, and the builders who have called it a bubble themselves. Listed as evidence of where the doubt sits, not as advice in either direction.
Argues in a running series that the boom rests on a small number of unprofitable companies whose demand for chips and cloud capacity keeps the rest moving, and that cloud providers are funding their own customers.
CoreWeave's five-year credit default swaps reached about 855 basis points in July 2026, implying roughly even odds of default on standard models, and Oracle's tripled from the end of 2025, after CoreWeave reported interest expense doubling and negative free cash flow of $4.7B for the first quarter.
Calls the GPU "neoclouds" such as CoreWeave equipment leasing dressed up as growth, financial conduits for Nvidia rather than technology companies, with contracting margins and balance sheets that depend on GPU resale values holding.
Bought put options on about 1 million Nvidia shares and 5 million Palantir shares, roughly $1.1B notional and 80% of the disclosed portfolio, in the quarter ending September 2025. Posted that "sometimes the only winning move is not to play."
Called AI "a kind of industrial bubble, as opposed to financial bubbles" at Italian Tech Week in October 2025, the kind that leaves useful infrastructure behind when it deflates, while himself funding Prometheus, AMI Labs, Figure and Skild.
Said in August 2025 that investors are "overexcited" about AI, that some startup valuations are "insane", and that "someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money", while comparing the moment to the dot-com boom's kernel of truth.
Co-authored the June 2024 report "Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?" arguing that a roughly $1 trillion build-out needs AI to solve complex problems it is not built to solve. Repeated in May 2026 that the economics look worse than two years earlier and that fear of missing out is driving the spend.
The "$600B question": at 2024 capital-expenditure levels the industry needs about $600B a year of AI revenue to earn a return on the compute, and the revenue is not there.
Listed companies with a position in at least one camp. Most are conglomerates where AI is one line among many; a few are pure plays.
| Company | Ticker | Camps | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (Qwen) | NYSE:BABA | LLM scaling | Largest open-weight family by downloads. |
| Amazon AGI Lab | NASDAQ:AMZN | LLM scaling Physical AI | Nova models and agents; Covariant team for robots. |
| Baidu (ERNIE) | NASDAQ:BIDU | LLM scaling | ERNIE models. |
| BrainChip | ASX:BRN | Other substrates | Listed neuromorphic chip maker. |
| Google DeepMind | NASDAQ:GOOGL | LLM scaling World models Physics AI Experience / RL Physical AI | Gemini, Genie, AlphaFold, Gemini Robotics, Silver. The only org in every camp. |
| Intel Labs (Loihi) | NASDAQ:INTC | Other substrates | Loihi neuromorphic research. |
| Meta | NASDAQ:META | LLM scaling World models | Was camp 2 under LeCun; now camp 1 under Wang. FAIR still does V-JEPA. |
| Microsoft AI | NASDAQ:MSFT | LLM scaling | In-house MAI models; separate from OpenAI. |
| MiniMax | HKEX:2610 | LLM scaling | Listed in Hong Kong, January 2026. |
| NVIDIA | NASDAQ:NVDA | World models Physical AI LLM scaling Physics AI | Picks and shovels for all of them: GPUs, Cosmos, GR00T, Isaac, neural operators. |
| Recursion | NASDAQ:RXRX | Physics AI | Listed AI drug discovery; Boltz-2. |
| Tesla (Optimus) | NASDAQ:TSLA | Physical AI | Vertically integrated humanoid, FSD-style data flywheel. |
| UBTech Robotics | HKEX:9880 | Physical AI | Listed humanoid maker with the largest delivered fleet. |
| Unitree | SSE:688836 | Physical AI | Cheap hardware that made the field affordable. |
| Verses | CBOE:VERS | Other substrates | Active inference agents. |
| xAI (SpaceX AI division) | NASDAQ:SPCX | LLM scaling | Grok. Compute-maximalist. |
| Xiaomi MiMo | HKEX:1810 | LLM scaling | Open-weight 1T MoE from a phone company. |
| Z.ai (Zhipu) | HKEX:2513 | LLM scaling | GLM models; first listed LLM company. |
| Lab | Camp | Valuation | Round | Date | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | LLM scaling | $965B | $65B | May 2026 | post-money |
| OpenAI | LLM scaling | $852B | $122B | Mar 2026 | post-money |
| DeepSeek | LLM scaling | $50B | $7.40B | Jun 2026 | reported |
| Prometheus | Physics AI | $41B | $12B | Jun 2026 | reported |
| Figure | Physical AI | $39B | $1B | Sep 2025 | post-money |
| Moonshot AI | LLM scaling | $35B | $3.5B | Jul 2026 | post-money |
| Safe Superintelligence | LLM scaling | $32B | $2B | Apr 2025 | post-money |
| Cohere | LLM scaling | $20B | $600M | Apr 2026 | reported reported |
| Skild AI | Physical AI | $14B | $1.40B | Jan 2026 | post-money |
| Mistral | LLM scaling | $13.80B | $2B | Sep 2025 | post-money |
| Thinking Machines Lab | LLM scaling | $12B | $2B | Jul 2025 | post-money |
| 1X | Physical AI | $10B | $1B | Sep 2025 | reported reported |
| Wayve | World models | $8.60B | $1.20B | Feb 2026 | post-money |
| Reflection AI | LLM scaling | $8B | $2B | Oct 2025 | post-money |
| Periodic Labs | Physics AI | $7.5B | $500M | May 2026 | reported reported |
| Physical Intelligence | Physical AI | $5.60B | $600M | Nov 2025 | post-money |
| Apptronik | Physical AI | $5.5B | $520M | Feb 2026 | post-money |
| Runway | World models | $5.30B | $315M | Feb 2026 | post-money |
| Ineffable Intelligence | Experience / RL | $5.10B | $1.10B | Apr 2026 | post-money |
| NEURA Robotics | Physical AI | $4.60B | $1.40B | Jun 2026 | reported |
| Decart | World models | $4B | $300M | May 2026 | post-money |
| Luma AI | World models | $4B | $900M | Nov 2025 | reported |
| Chai Discovery | Physics AI | $3.80B | $400M | Jul 2026 | post-money |
| AMI Labs | World models | $3.5B | $1.03B | Mar 2026 | pre-money |
| Galbot | Physical AI | $3B | $300M | Dec 2025 | post-money |
| Generalist AI | Physical AI | $3B | $200M | Aug 2026 | reported |
| Waabi | World models | $3B | $750M | Jan 2026 | post-money |
| Sakana AI | Experience / RL | $2.65B | $135M | Nov 2025 | post-money |
| Agility Robotics | Physical AI | $2.5B | Jun 2026 | reported reported | |
| PhysicsX | Physics AI | $2.40B | $300M | Jun 2026 | post-money |
| Liquid AI | Other substrates | $2.35B | $250M | Dec 2024 | post-money |
| FieldAI | Physical AI | $2B | $405M | Aug 2025 | post-money |
| Odyssey | World models | $1.45B | $310M | Jun 2026 | post-money |
| Lila Sciences | Physics AI | $1.30B | $115M | Oct 2025 | post-money |
| Essential AI | $1B | $175M | Aug 2025 | post-money | |
| Prime Intellect | Experience / RL | $1B | $130M | Jul 2026 | post-money |
| World Labs | World models | $1B | $230M | Sep 2024 | reported |
| Dyna Robotics | Physical AI | $600M | $120M | Sep 2025 | post-money |
| CuspAI | Physics AI | $500M | $100M | Sep 2025 | reported |
| Date | Lab | Camp | Amount | Kind | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | Physical Superintelligence | Physics AI | $58M | seed | Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, SV Angel | HPCwire | |
| Aug 2026 | Generalist AI | Physical AI | $200M | Series B extension | $3B reported | 8VC | TechCrunch |
| Aug 2026 | Unitree | Physical AI | $900M | ipo | $9B reported | Shanghai Stock Exchange / Global Times, KraneShares | |
| Jul 2026 | Chai Discovery | Physics AI | $400M | Series C | $3.80B post-money | The Next Web | |
| Jul 2026 | CuspAI | Physics AI | $450M | funding round | SiliconANGLE | ||
| Jul 2026 | Extropic | Other substrates | $75M reported | government (letter of intent) | U.S. Department of Commerce, CHIPS R&D | PR Newswire | |
| Jul 2026 | Moonshot AI | LLM scaling | $3.5B | funding round | $35B post-money | Bloomberg | |
| Jul 2026 | Prime Intellect | Experience / RL | $130M | Series A | $1B post-money | Radical Ventures, NVentures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital and 1 more | TechCrunch, Prime Intellect |
| Jul 2026 | Safe Superintelligence | LLM scaling | $5B | strategic investment | Nvidia | TechCrunch | |
| Jun 2026 | Agility Robotics | Physical AI | reported | spac (announced) | $2.5B reported | Briefs | |
| Jun 2026 | DeepSeek | LLM scaling | $7.40B | first external round | $50B reported | Liang Wenfeng, Tencent, CATL, JD.com and 3 more | The Decoder, Forbes |
| Jun 2026 | Generalist AI | Physical AI | $400M | Series B | $2B post-money | Radical Ventures, 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Norwest and 4 more | Bloomberg, TechCrunch |
| Jun 2026 | NEURA Robotics | Physical AI | $1.40B | Series C | $4.60B reported | Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia and 3 more | NEURA Robotics, CNBC |
| Jun 2026 | Odyssey | World models | $310M | Series B | $1.45B post-money | Natural Capital, Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV and 2 more | TechCrunch |
| Jun 2026 | PhysicsX | Physics AI | $300M | Series C | $2.40B post-money | Temasek, M&G, Intrepid Growth Partners, Applied Materials and 4 more | PhysicsX |
| Jun 2026 | Prometheus | Physics AI | $12B | Series B | $41B reported | Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and 2 more | TechCrunch, Axios |
| Jun 2026 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $75B | ipo | $1.77T reported | CNBC | |
| May 2026 | Anthropic | LLM scaling | $65B | Series H | $965B post-money | Fortune, TechCrunch | |
| May 2026 | Decart | World models | $300M | Series B | $4B post-money | Radical Ventures, Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark and 1 more | SiliconANGLE |
| May 2026 | Ndea | Other substrates | $44M reported | disclosed funding to date | Y Combinator, Coatue, Factorial Capital, Quiet Capital | StartupHub | |
| May 2026 | Orbital Industries | Physics AI | $50M | Series B | Plural, NVentures, Radical Ventures | Fortune | |
| May 2026 | Periodic Labs | Physics AI | $500M reported | funding round (reported talks) | $7.5B reported | Forbes | |
| Apr 2026 | Cohere | LLM scaling | $600M reported | Series E (announced) | $20B reported | Schwarz Group | TechCrunch, CNBC |
| Apr 2026 | Ineffable Intelligence | Experience / RL | $1.10B | funding round | $5.10B post-money | Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners | TechCrunch |
| Mar 2026 | AMI Labs | World models | $1.03B | seed | $3.5B pre-money | Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and 5 more | TechCrunch |
| Mar 2026 | Galbot | Physical AI | $362M | funding round | Caixin Global | ||
| Mar 2026 | Normal Computing | Other substrates | $50M | funding round | Samsung Catalyst Fund, Galvanize, Brevan Howard, Micron Ventures | PR Newswire | |
| Mar 2026 | OpenAI | LLM scaling | $122B | funding round | $852B post-money | Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank | CNBC, CNBC |
| Feb 2026 | Adaption Labs | Experience / RL | $50M | seed | Emergence Capital, Mozilla Ventures, Fifty Years, Threshold Ventures | Fortune | |
| Feb 2026 | Apptronik | Physical AI | $520M | Series A extension | $5.5B post-money | B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz, PEAK6 and 3 more | CNBC, Apptronik |
| Feb 2026 | Runway | World models | $315M | Series E | $5.30B post-money | General Atlantic, Nvidia, Fidelity, Adobe Ventures and 1 more | TechCrunch |
| Feb 2026 | Wayve | World models | $1.20B | Series D | $8.60B post-money | Eclipse, Balderton, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Microsoft and 2 more | CNBC, Wayve |
| Feb 2026 | World Labs | World models | $1B | funding round | Autodesk, AMD, Nvidia, Emerson Collective and 2 more | TechCrunch | |
| Feb 2026 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $250B | merger | $1.25T reported | SpaceX | CNBC |
| Jan 2026 | MiniMax | LLM scaling | $710M | ipo | $13.70B reported | CNBC | |
| Jan 2026 | Poetiq | Other substrates | $46M | seed | FYRFLY Venture Partners, Surface Ventures, Y Combinator, 468 Capital and 1 more | SiliconANGLE | |
| Jan 2026 | Skild AI | Physical AI | $1.40B | Series C | $14B post-money | SoftBank, NVentures, Macquarie, 1789 Capital and 6 more | TechCrunch, Skild AI |
| Jan 2026 | Waabi | World models | $750M | funding round | $3B post-money | Khosla Ventures, G2 Venture Partners, Uber | CNBC |
| Jan 2026 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $20B | Series E | $230B post-money | Nvidia, Valor, Fidelity, QIA | xAI |
| Jan 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | LLM scaling | ipo | $6.80B reported | PR Newswire | ||
| Dec 2025 | Chai Discovery | Physics AI | $130M | Series B | Owl Posting | ||
| Dec 2025 | Edison Scientific | Physics AI | $70M | seed | Triatomic Capital, Spark Capital, Pillar VC, Susa Ventures | Bloomberg | |
| Dec 2025 | Galbot | Physical AI | $300M | funding round | $3B post-money | PR Newswire | |
| Nov 2025 | Inception | Other substrates | $50M | seed | Menlo Ventures, Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, M12 and 3 more | TechCrunch | |
| Nov 2025 | Luma AI | World models | $900M | Series C | $4B reported | HUMAIN, AMD Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners and 1 more | CNBC |
| Nov 2025 | Physical Intelligence | Physical AI | $600M | Series B | $5.60B post-money | CapitalG, Lux Capital, Thrive Capital, Bezos Expeditions and 2 more | Bloomberg |
| Nov 2025 | Sakana AI | Experience / RL | $135M | Series B | $2.65B post-money | MUFG, Khosla Ventures, Macquarie, NEA and 2 more | TechCrunch via Yahoo Finance |
| Oct 2025 | General Intuition | World models | $134M | seed | Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Raine Group | TechCrunch | |
| Oct 2025 | Lila Sciences | Physics AI | $115M | Series A extension | $1.30B post-money | Nvidia | Reuters via Yahoo Finance |
| Oct 2025 | Reflection AI | LLM scaling | $2B | funding round | $8B post-money | Nvidia, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Eric Schmidt | TechCrunch |
| Sep 2025 | 1X | Physical AI | $1B reported | funding round (reported talks) | $10B reported | Tech Startups | |
| Sep 2025 | Anthropic | LLM scaling | $13B | Series F | $183B post-money | ICONIQ, Fidelity, Lightspeed | Anthropic |
| Sep 2025 | CuspAI | Physics AI | $100M | Series A | $500M reported | NEA, Temasek, NVentures, Samsung Ventures and 1 more | Reuters via Yahoo Finance |
| Sep 2025 | Dyna Robotics | Physical AI | $120M | Series A | $600M post-money | CRV, First Round Capital, RoboStrategy, Nvidia and 2 more | Bloomberg |
| Sep 2025 | Figure | Physical AI | $1B | Series C | $39B post-money | Parkway Venture Capital, Brookfield, Nvidia, Intel Capital and 3 more | Figure |
| Sep 2025 | Mistral | LLM scaling | $2B | Series C | $13.80B post-money | ASML | CNBC, Mistral AI |
| Sep 2025 | Periodic Labs | Physics AI | $300M | seed | $1.30B post-money | Andreessen Horowitz, DST, NVentures, Accel and 4 more | TechCrunch |
| Sep 2025 | Radical AI | Physics AI | $55M | seed | RTX Ventures, NVentures, Eni, AlleyCorp | New York State, MIT Technology Review | |
| Aug 2025 | Chai Discovery | Physics AI | $70M | Series A | Menlo Ventures, DST Global, DCVC, Thrive Capital and 1 more | SiliconANGLE | |
| Aug 2025 | Cohere | LLM scaling | $500M | funding round | $6.80B post-money | Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures | CNBC |
| Aug 2025 | Essential AI | $175M | Series B | $1B post-money | Lightspeed, Thrive Capital | Wikipedia | |
| Aug 2025 | FieldAI | Physical AI | $405M | funding rounds | $2B post-money | Bezos Expeditions, Prysm Capital, Temasek, Khosla Ventures and 3 more | TechCrunch, FieldAI |
| Jul 2025 | Genesis AI | Physical AI | $105M | seed | Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, HSG and 2 more | Genesis AI | |
| Jul 2025 | Moonvalley | World models | $84M | funding round | General Catalyst, Creative Artists Agency, CoreWeave, Comcast Ventures and 1 more | Business Wire | |
| Jul 2025 | Thinking Machines Lab | LLM scaling | $2B | seed | $12B post-money | Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow and 3 more | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2025 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $5B | debt and equity | Morgan Stanley (debt) | CNBC | |
| Jun 2025 | PhysicsX | Physics AI | $135M | Series B | Atomico, Temasek, Siemens, Applied Materials and 1 more | PhysicsX | |
| Jun 2025 | Skild AI | Physical AI | $135M | Series B | $4.5B reported | SoftBank, Nvidia, Samsung | Yahoo Finance |
| Jun 2025 | SpiNNcloud Systems | Other substrates | $11M | grant and equity | European Innovation Council | SpinLab | |
| May 2025 | AI21 Labs | LLM scaling | $300M | Series D | Google, Nvidia | SiliconANGLE | |
| Apr 2025 | Cortical Labs | Other substrates | $10M | funding round | Horizons Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, In-Q-Tel | Wikipedia | |
| Apr 2025 | Runway | World models | $308M | Series D | $3B post-money | General Atlantic, Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Nvidia and 1 more | TechCrunch |
| Apr 2025 | Safe Superintelligence | LLM scaling | $2B | funding round | $32B post-money | Greenoaks, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, DST Global | CTech, TechCrunch |
| Mar 2025 | Cartesia | Other substrates | $64M | Series A | Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed | Cartesia | |
| Mar 2025 | Agility Robotics | Physical AI | $400M | Series C | $2.12B post-money | DCVC, Playground Global, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, NVentures and 1 more | GeekWire |
| Mar 2025 | Anthropic | LLM scaling | $3.5B | Series E | $61.5B post-money | Lightspeed | Anthropic |
| Mar 2025 | Isomorphic Labs | Physics AI | $600M | funding round | Thrive Capital, GV, Alphabet | TechCrunch | |
| Mar 2025 | Lila Sciences | Physics AI | $200M | seed | Flagship Pioneering, General Catalyst, March Capital, ARK Venture Fund | PR Newswire | |
| Mar 2025 | OpenAI | LLM scaling | $40B | funding round | $300B post-money | SoftBank | CNBC |
| Feb 2025 | Apptronik | Physical AI | $350M | Series A | B Capital, Capital Factory, Google | TechCrunch | |
| Feb 2025 | Latent Labs | Physics AI | $50M | seed and Series A | Radical Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, 8VC, Pillar VC | Business Wire | |
| Dec 2024 | Cartesia | Other substrates | $22M | seed | Index Ventures | Index Ventures | |
| Dec 2024 | Decart | World models | $32M | Series A | $500M reported | Benchmark, Sequoia, Zeev Ventures | TechCrunch |
| Dec 2024 | Liquid AI | Other substrates | $250M | Series A | $2.35B post-money | AMD Ventures | Tech Funding News |
| Dec 2024 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $6B | Series C | $50B reported | Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Fidelity, Nvidia and 3 more | xAI |
| Dec 2024 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | LLM scaling | $412M | funding round | Hangzhou state funds | South China Morning Post | |
| Nov 2024 | Physical Intelligence | Physical AI | $400M | Series A | $2.40B post-money | Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital and 1 more | CNBC |
| Oct 2024 | Decart | World models | $21M | seed | Sequoia, Zeev Ventures | CTech | |
| Oct 2024 | OpenAI | LLM scaling | $6.60B | funding round | $157B post-money | Thrive Capital, Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank | TechCrunch |
| Sep 2024 | Chai Discovery | Physics AI | $30M | seed | Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Dimension Capital | Bloomberg | |
| Sep 2024 | Sakana AI | Experience / RL | $214M | Series A | $1.5B post-money | NEA, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, Nvidia and 3 more | Sakana AI |
| Sep 2024 | Safe Superintelligence | LLM scaling | $1B | funding round | $5B post-money | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global, SV Angel | CTech |
| Sep 2024 | World Labs | World models | $230M | seed and Series A | $1B reported | Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Radical Ventures, NVentures | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2024 | Cohere | LLM scaling | $500M | Series D | $5.5B post-money | PSP Investments, Cisco, Fujitsu, AMD Ventures | BetaKit |
| Jul 2024 | Skild AI | Physical AI | $300M | Series A | $1.5B post-money | Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank, Bezos Expeditions | Skild AI |
| Jun 2024 | CuspAI | Physics AI | $30M | seed | Hoxton Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Lightspeed | FinSMEs | |
| Jun 2024 | EvolutionaryScale | $142M | seed | Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Lux Capital, Amazon and 1 more | TechCrunch | ||
| Jun 2024 | Mistral | LLM scaling | $640M | Series B | $6.20B post-money | General Catalyst | TechCrunch |
| Jun 2024 | Waabi | World models | $200M | Series B | Uber, Khosla Ventures, Nvidia, Volvo Group and 1 more | CNBC | |
| May 2024 | Wayve | World models | $1.05B | Series C | SoftBank | Wayve | |
| May 2024 | xAI (SpaceX AI division) | LLM scaling | $6B | Series B | $24B post-money | Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia and 1 more | xAI |
| Apr 2024 | Prime Intellect | Experience / RL | $6M | seed | Distributed Global, CoinFund | Fortune | |
| Apr 2024 | Symbolica | Other substrates | $31M | Series A | Khosla Ventures | Maginative | |
| Mar 2024 | MiniMax | LLM scaling | $600M | funding round | $2.5B reported | Alibaba | SiliconANGLE |
| Mar 2024 | Physical Intelligence | Physical AI | $70M | seed | Thrive Capital, Sequoia, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures and 1 more | Maginative | |
| Feb 2024 | Figure | Physical AI | $675M | Series B | $2.60B post-money | Figure | |
| Feb 2024 | Moonshot AI | LLM scaling | $1B | funding round | $2.5B post-money | Alibaba, HongShan | TechCrunch |
| Feb 2024 | Unitree | Physical AI | $140M | Series B2 | Meituan, Jinshi Investment, Source Code Capital | EqualOcean | |
| Jan 2024 | 1X | Physical AI | $100M | Series B | EQT Ventures, Samsung NEXT | Tech Startups | |
| Jan 2024 | Luma AI | World models | $43M | Series B | Andreessen Horowitz | TechCrunch | |
| Jan 2024 | Sakana AI | Experience / RL | $30M | seed | Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, NTT | Sakana AI | |
| Dec 2023 | Extropic | Other substrates | $14M | seed | Kindred Ventures, Buckley Ventures, HOF Capital, OSS Capital and 1 more | SiliconANGLE | |
| Dec 2023 | Liquid AI | Other substrates | $38M | seed | $303M post-money | OSS Capital, PagsGroup, Automattic, Samsung Next | TechCrunch |
| Dec 2023 | Mistral | LLM scaling | $415M | Series A | $2B post-money | Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed | TechCrunch |
| Nov 2023 | PhysicsX | Physics AI | $32M | Series A | General Catalyst, Standard Investments, NGP, Radius Capital | PhysicsX | |
| Sep 2023 | Anthropic | LLM scaling | $4B | strategic investment | Amazon | Amazon | |
| Jun 2023 | Cohere | LLM scaling | $270M | Series C | $2.20B post-money | Inovia Capital, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures | BetaKit |
| Jun 2023 | Mistral | LLM scaling | $113M | seed | $260M post-money | Lightspeed | TechCrunch |
| Jun 2023 | Normal Computing | Other substrates | $8M | seed | Celesta Capital, First Spark Ventures, Micron Ventures | Normal Computing | |
| Jun 2023 | Runway | World models | $141M | Series C extension | $1.5B post-money | Google, Nvidia, Salesforce | TechCrunch |
| May 2023 | Anthropic | LLM scaling | $450M | Series C | Spark Capital, Google, Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures | TechCrunch | |
| May 2023 | Figure | Physical AI | $70M | Series A | Parkway Venture Capital | SiliconANGLE | |
| Apr 2023 | Covariant | $75M | Series C extension | Radical Ventures, Index Ventures | TechCrunch | ||
| Jan 2023 | OpenAI | LLM scaling | $10B | strategic investment | Microsoft | The Verge | |
| Aug 2022 | Keen Technologies | Experience / RL | $20M | seed | Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke and 1 more | The Next Web | |
| Apr 2022 | Agility Robotics | Physical AI | $150M | Series B | DCVC, Playground Global, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund | Agility Robotics | |
| Jan 2022 | Wayve | World models | $200M | Series B | Eclipse, D1 Capital, Baillie Gifford, Microsoft and 2 more | Wayve |