Daytona is building cloud infrastructure for long-running AI agents, offering each a sandboxed environment with Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU support. The startup has now raised $91 million, including a $60 million Series B led by FirstMark Growth at a $1 billion valuation.
Claude generated nearly 320,000 protein candidates in 64 hours, narrowing them to 211 designs; tests found 17 binders against four of five scorpion toxins, but none targeted more than one toxin. Experts called the work preliminary.
DeepSeek’s reported $15 billion raise follows a U.S. order, issued two days earlier, for federal civilian agencies to remove its AI over national-security concerns. CATL and Tencent are among potential investors, with funds targeting AI infrastructure and open models.
Carbon-X runs locally on a laptop, keeping sensitive genomic data off Hugging Face and third-party servers. The 14-billion-parameter model was trained on 300 billion tokens and DNA grouped in six-letter sequences, with viruses excluded from its data.
Flint runs locally at about 131 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook—roughly twice the speed of comparable models. The 40B-parameter MoE activates 2.5B parameters, is free under Apache 2.0, and works offline for private coding.
The one-year-old startup’s $1B Series A values it at $6B, quadrupling its valuation from $1.5B nine months ago. Its megakernel framework aims to train large AI models with less data while keeping GPUs busier.
Legora says its annual recurring revenue has topped $200M, up from $100M in April, and plans to use the funding to expand across North America. Its valuation rose from $5.6B to $8.8B in six months, while rival Harvey is valued at $15.5B.
Blacksmith’s ARR has grown 17x as it processed more than 90 million CI jobs, including checks for AI-generated code. The Sequoia-led $66 million round follows a $45 million raise just two months ago and brings total funding to $125 million.
Mach9’s AI CAD platform turns laser scans and images into draft plans with centimeter-level accuracy, making survey work roughly 10× faster than legacy manual workflows. The startup raised $34M on October 21, 2026, co-led by First Round and Bessemer.
OpenAI will integrate Orchestra Bio’s AI agents for drug-discovery operations into Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench, tools for planning experiments and analyzing results. The four-year-old startup had raised about $20 million; Moderna and Novo Nordisk are Rosalind customers.
Anthropic’s leaked S-1 says potential cloud commitments above $750 billion may still not meet demand, forcing it toward less-tested third-party data-center operators. The company reported an $80.7B first-half net loss on $16.3B revenue ahead of a targeted November IPO.
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