Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz

Kind
vc
Rounds
10, led 7
Rounds joined
$18.89B in total size
Appears as
Andreessen Horowitz, a16z

Camp exposure

LLM scaling
6 rounds, led 4
World models
3 rounds, led 2
Physics AI
1 round, led 1

Labs backed

Luma AIVideo models with a Saudi-funded 2 GW cluster.
MistralEuropean open-weight frontier.
Periodic LabsAutonomous labs plus models for materials discovery.
Safe SuperintelligenceStraight shot, no products.
Thinking Machines LabPost-training and fine-tuning as the product.
World LabsMarble, then Atlas (September 2026): 3D worlds from images, text and video. $1B, Feb 2026.
xAI (SpaceX AI division)Grok. Compute-maximalist.

Rounds

DateLabCampAmountKindValuationRoleSource
Nov 2025Luma AIWorld models $900MSeries C $4B reportedjoined CNBC
Sep 2025Periodic LabsPhysics AI $300Mseed $1.30B post-moneyled TechCrunch
Jul 2025Thinking Machines LabLLM scaling $2Bseed $12B post-moneyled TechCrunch
Apr 2025Safe SuperintelligenceLLM scaling $2Bfunding round $32B post-moneyjoined CTech, TechCrunch
Dec 2024xAI (SpaceX AI division)LLM scaling $6BSeries C $50B reportedled xAI
Sep 2024Safe SuperintelligenceLLM scaling $1Bfunding round $5B post-moneyled CTech
Sep 2024World LabsWorld models $230Mseed and Series A $1B reportedled TechCrunch
May 2024xAI (SpaceX AI division)LLM scaling $6BSeries B $24B post-moneyjoined xAI
Jan 2024Luma AIWorld models $43MSeries B led TechCrunch
Dec 2023MistralLLM scaling $415MSeries A $2B post-moneyled TechCrunch