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River AI founder, previously at Google DeepMind, OpenAI and xAI.
SpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor on August 15, 2026. The loudest developer reaction was not celebration but a claim that Claude Code and Codex already took the agentic coding lead.
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Four raises worth $7.7 billion landed in one week, and the largest is not a fund with an exit clock. Thrive's roll-up vehicle sold roughly a sixth of itself at a $12 billion valuation.
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Crunchbase counted 29 additions to its unicorn board in August, worth about $63bn, and across the nine AI, software and semiconductor entrants with disclosed terms, every dollar of new cash set roughly eight dollars of paper.
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A published NVFP4 and speculative-decoding config turns a 27B open-weights model into something you can try to serve. The 206.1 tokens per second figure is single-stream and unreplicated.
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SpaceXAI opened its prompt-to-app builder to every Grok plan on August 19 and wired publishing straight into the X feed. The pressure on rivals lands on distribution.
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Coatue's round values the company at roughly 27 times a self-reported $7 billion run rate, about what December's round paid. What changed is that the acceleration has stopped.
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