Fundraising

AITri Dao congratulated the Etched team, calling it strong in both hardware design and kernels. The quoted Etched post says the company raised $300M in Series C funding at a $10.3B valuation to accelerate production of its inference clusters. It also opened an 80,000-sqft, 10-MW facility for production and prototyping.

AISebastien Bubeck congratulated Jacob Tsimerman and welcomed him to OpenAI. The quoted post says Tsimerman, a Fields Medal winner, announced at a press conference that he is pivoting toward AI safety and will be going to OpenAI soon.

AICognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of Poke, a personal AI agent that texts users proactively and is approved to text natively on Apple Messages. Poke has exchanged more than 100 million messages in the last three months, and Poke users can keep using the product as before. Cognition says its models and infrastructure will make Poke faster and more reliable.

AISequoia Capital is leading Etched's $300 million Series C at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, backing the startup's custom inference silicon. Etched says its first-generation chip taped out at TSMC on leading-edge nodes and that its first cluster ran a range of frontier models in 40 days, with early customers now getting access.

AIOpenAI is announcing $17 million in new commitments to support researchers participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. The commitments expand researchers' access to frontier AI and technical collaboration to accelerate American scientific discovery.

AICognition has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to join the Genesis Mission, a national AI initiative launched by executive order in November 2025. Cognition will contribute its Devin autonomous AI software engineer in four areas: software and data security, modernizing legacy scientific code, expanding scientific workforce capacity, and cloud modernization. Devin Desktop and CLI are listed as FedRAMP Class D (High) Authorized, and the company has offered in-kind code security scans for national laboratory codebases.

AILisa Su says AMD Helios will help power Anthropic's Claude at gigawatt scale. The quoted AMD announcement states the partnership expands to up to 2 GW of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in AMD Helios, with AMD committing up to $5B in strategic equity investment in Anthropic.

AIOpenAI is developing Project Camellia, a long-term AI infrastructure project in Effingham County, Georgia, and says it will pay all infrastructure and electric-service costs so existing ratepayers are not subsidizing it.

AIDavid Vélez, founder and Global CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, Chairman and CEO of BNY, are joining the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC. The post says they bring experience in technology, finance, and expanding economic opportunity globally.

AICognition has acquired or welcomed the TierZero team, led by Anhang and Yun, to bring their work on automations into Devin. The goal is to help engineers spend less time handling incidents and more time building, with the source offering no further product details.

AIAMD and Microsoft Azure are expanding their partnership to deploy AMD Helios with MI455X GPUs, Venice CPUs, and Pensando networking. According to AMD's linked background, Microsoft will use Helios to power frontier model AI inference for itself, its AI customers, and Azure AI services.

AIKimi has temporarily paused new subscriptions after Kimi K3 demand pushed its GPU capacity close to limits over the past 48 hours. Existing subscribers are unaffected, and compute is being prioritized for current members while new subscription spots reopen in batches. The company also plans to split membership into Kimi Membership for Kimi Web, App, and Work, and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows.

AISable has created "Aidan," an AI employee that leads customer calls using vision, voice, video and real-time browser interaction. Frontier companies including Notion and Decagon are already using Sable to explain their products, and more than 150 companies are on its waitlist. Sequoia Capital led Sable's seed round and co-led its Series A.

AIBunkerhill Health's Carebricks platform lets health systems create and deploy AI agents across clinical and operational use cases using data hospitals already generate. Sequoia Capital backed the company at seed and is continuing to invest. At UTMB Health, Bunkerhill grew from one agent in production to more than twenty, consolidating multiple vendors' point solutions into one platform.

AICognition says its one-year-old merger with Windsurf has produced a more capable Devin, which now manages other Devins at a mid-to-senior engineering level, and new SWE-1.7 model, described as its most capable and efficient to date. The company reports growing from 44 to 350 people and revenue run rate from $73M to $500M+ since merging the brands.

AIFidji Simo has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to a part-time advisor position after seven years of managing a chronic illness that required medical leave three months ago. She says she had repeatedly deferred this decision in the past and now prioritizes recovery, while remaining engaged in work on AI-driven health solutions through OpenAI, Chronicle Bio AI, and CODA.

AIOpenAI's Fidji Simo says CAPABLE gives her a lot of hope, praising the team for redefining what is possible in drug development. She says she is glad to support the company. The quoted post describes CAPABLE as a lab that goes from AI-led drug design to data in 24 hours, starting with short-sleeper peptides.

AIKevin Weil, who runs OpenAI, invites readers to join a team working on an important mission at the intersection of AI and biology. The quoted post from @isaakfreeman describes a lab that goes from AI-led drug design to data in 24 hours, with a stated goal of building a biological compute layer for future models, starting with short-sleeper peptides.

AITogether AI says it is serving 400 trillion tokens per month, and demand for open models keeps rising. The company also announced an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, as it works to build an efficient generative AI platform.

AIBridgewater partnered with Thinking Machines on Tinker to fine-tune a model that helps its analysts focus on what matters most. The post frames the work as experts improving AI that empowers experts, with a linked article on replicating expert judgment in financial tasks.

AITri Dao says Etched designed and produced its chips within two years by hardcoding attention into silicon and reaching high MFU. He expects hardware built for LLM inference to cut the cost of intelligence by 10x. The quoted Etched post says it has built its first racks after an A0 tapeout, raised $800m, holds $1B+ in customer contracts, and plans to ship the racks this summer.

AIXiaomi MiMo's account celebrated growing developer adoption of its open-weights models, crediting Cline for building on MiMo. Cline's linked post announced a $9.99/month subscription offering 2-5x discounted access to GLM-5.2 and other open-weight models including DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, MiMo, and Qwen, with a $1.99 promo for sign-ups via npm i -g cline.

AIFidji Simo praised Intercept, a $500 million philanthropic initiative to eliminate respiratory infections like colds and flu. The accompanying blog post cites links such as 9.8x asthma risk by age 6 after rhinovirus infection in early childhood and 6.1x heart attack risk for seven days after influenza. Intercept will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning technologies.

AIGoogle Labs announced that Project Genie has won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for AI Craft. The honor recognizes how Genie achieves creative outcomes that go beyond conventional limits, according to a quoted post from a team member.

AIOpenAI has welcomed Noam Shazeer as its new lead for architecture research, citing his work on transformers, MoE, and efficient decoding. Shazeer announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI.

AIMckay Wrigley congratulated the Cursor team on more than three years of work and said he is excited to see what they build with compute from SpaceX and xAI. He noted he still keeps the original open-source Cursor repo on his laptop. Background posts from him describe Cursor as his full-time IDE, citing codebase search as a major productivity gain.

AIYi Tay says he moved from an individual contributor role into management, with Qx Dong bringing him into the role a few months ago. He describes watching researchers join the team, building its culture, and stepping onto the frontline, and calls the concentration of talent in Singapore unprecedented.

AISpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor in an all-stock transaction, aiming to build highly useful AI models. The quoted announcement says SpaceXAI has spent several months jointly training a model with Cursor, to be released soon in Cursor and Grok Build.

AISpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor in an all-stock transaction, with the stated goal of building the world's most useful AI models. Over the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

AISoumith Chintala congratulated Reardon and the team behind Flourish AI, saying that matching human-level sample efficiency and energy consumption in AI would change many things. The post links to a Wired story on Jeff Bezos funding a search for the brain's core algorithm.

AICognition introduced the AI Productivity Guarantee, under which it will issue credits up to $10M if Devin delivers less engineering value than enterprise customers pay for. The company uses an AI estimator to measure hours of productive output, validated against engineers' own estimates of how long the same work would have taken by hand. Value is converted to dollars at a standard global rate and compared against each customer's consumption near the end of the annual contract.

Why it matters: The post explains how Cognition estimates Devin's output in hours and backs the estimate with a $10M credit commitment, a concrete model for measuring AI vendor value.

AICognition raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. Enterprise Devin usage grew more than 10x since the start of this year, and run-rate revenue reached $492M. The company also said it launched SWE-1.6, which reaches up to 950 tok/s and has become the most used model in Devin Desktop.

AIThinking Machines is offering grants of $100,000 plus Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity, with proposals due June 19th. Mira Murati's post frames collaborative AI as real-time interaction between machines and people across every modality, and invites a community to help solve it.

AIThinking Machines is offering grants of $100,000 plus Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity, with proposals due June 19. Lilian Weng's post urges more collaboration and research in this field.