It seems that the large $642 million spherical that U.S.-based GPU compute supplier CoreWeave simply closed was a secondary transaction. I can’t summon a greater information occasion to summarize the present state of investor curiosity, enterprise included, in AI-related startups.
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The continued frenzy to spend money on AI startups is just not a neighborhood phenomenon: German AI firm Aleph Alpha closed a $500 million Series B in November, and France’s Mistral AI is presently tipped to be closing in on €450 million at a €2 billion valuation, after raising a $113 million seed round earlier this 12 months. 
Then we have now OpenAI’s in-process secondary transaction that might undergo at a valuation of almost $90 billion.
The record doesn’t get any much less hotter if we embody current eight-figure investments as a substitute of these price 9 figures or extra.
Parsing a list of current AI funding occasions put collectively by Crunchbase, we will discover extra stand-out firms: Rohirrim just raised $15 million (generative AI for enterprise); Atomic Industries raised $17 million (AI tuned for industrial manufacturing); and Meeting AI closed a $50 million round (AI speech fashions).
These are all from December. And at this time occurs to be December fifth.
