Ex-Twitter CEO’s AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation - WSJ

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Parallel Web Systems, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100M in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build web search for AI agents.

Rivian CEO’s Robotics Company Raises $400 Million - WSJ
Mind Robotics, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, raised $400 million to develop AI-powered industrial robots, bringing total funding over $1 billion.
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Introducing Simile.Simulating human behavior is one of the most consequential and technically difficult problems of our time. We raised $100
Simile has raised $100M to tackle simulating human behavior, a technically difficult problem with big consequences.
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Dreamer – your home for personal intelligence // flurries of latent creativity
Dreamer is a new personal intelligence platform where users create and run AI agents via natural language, treating agents like applications in an operating system with the Sidekick as kernel.
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Parallel Web Systems
Parallel's FindAll API turns natural language queries into structured datasets from the web, achieving 61% recall at 3x the performance of competitors.
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DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts
DeepSeek is raising over $7 billion from investors as it begins efforts to generate revenue.
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