Perplexity, an AI-powered search startup, secures $200 million in funding at a staggering $20 billion valuation, just two months after raising $100 million, positioning itself as a formidable challenger to Google's search dominance.
Cohere, an AI startup, secures $500M funding at $6.8B valuation, onboards Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and Francois Chadwick as Chief Financial Officer, partners with Oracle, Dell, RBC, and launches North, an agentic AI platform, propelling enterprise AI adoption.
Conversational AI startup Gupshup secures $60 million in equity and debt funding to drive global expansion and strengthen its AI agent offerings, though its unicorn status remains unconfirmed as the company keeps its valuation undisclosed.
Granola, an AI-powered notetaking app that just raised $43M at a $250M valuation, unveils collaborative features enabling users to share transcripts and notes with teammates, leveraging AI to surface insights from a broader pool of information.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence secures $2 billion at a staggering $32 billion valuation, with the funding round led by Greenoaks, in a bid to create a 'safe superintelligence' product, adding to the $1 billion previously raised.