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7 stories tagged funding on AI Tamer, newest first.
Nvidia says it will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering, priced at $625 a share, and help train and serve Meta's Muse models on Vera Rubin.
FirstMark Growth led a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation for Daytona, which rents sandboxes to AI agents. It says revenue grew about 25-fold this year.
Brooklyn robot maker Ultra says it raised a $50 million Series A, and Fortune puts the total with its seed at $62 million. Ultra leases packing robots; Physical Intelligence supplies the model.
Arena, the model leaderboard formerly called LMArena, says it raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation and launched an Alignment Index that scores agents on three failure types in real sessions.
Reuters reports that Manus parent Butterfly Effect said it closed a funding round of more than $500 million, co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. The company did not state a valuation.
Bloomberg reports OpenAI is discussing a $30 billion round with UAE funds, including MGX, and with BlackRock. A $1.4 trillion pre-money price in that copy is from people familiar, and the terms can change.
Bloomberg reports DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL among the largest commitments, ahead of an early 2027 IPO. Reuters said it could not verify the report.
