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Nvidia participated in the all-primary Series B round alongside Accel, Shastra VC, and Micromax, with Dallas Venture Capital leading the investment. The deal values the four-year-old startup at about $100 million, including the new funding. Companies are nowadays spending heavily on GPUs to power AI applications, but running those models reliably and economically at scale remains a challenge. Different workloads demand distinct trade-offs between speed, co

General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski is unfazed. He’s bullish on CoreWeave’s chances, and thinks Musk is just talking his book to drive down the prices of the GPUs he wants to buy. Fears of a chip-led collapse are “massively overstated. I have people calling me up every single week asking me to do TPUs, GPUs, any chip, to get them more compute.” Just as important, he says, Anthropic’s bullish S-1 is “settling fears for today.” General Compute

At TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this month, industry insiders tempered much of this criticism with optimism about how the flood of new energy connections could actually be opening the door for grid modernization. Apoorv Bhargava, founder and CEO of WeaveGrid, Tim Heidel, CEO of Veir, and Kristin Eberhard, VP of policy at Rewiring America, said that though the grid faces new challenges, there are also plenty of new opportunities as well. “It’s a very differen

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The idea isn’t entirely new. Companies like Crusoe and Schneider Electric also sell prefabricated pods, but Runware says it can ship its pods faster. Flaviu Radulescu, co-founder and CEO of Runware, told TechCrunch that the company plans to scale production at its Romania-based factory to 30 megawatts of data center capacity per day by 2028, or nearly 1 gigawatt per month. That’s a whole lot of capacity: At that pace, Runware would produce roughly as much

In embodied AI, you can't jump in and do everything at the outset, nor can you do nothing at all. Author |Qi Chengyong Editor | Cen Feng Dong Hao is a thoroughly atypical figure in the embodied intelligence industry. For most people, their impression of him stops at his status as a young scholar who was already a doctoral supervisor at Peking University at 29, and his recent industry credentials as chief scientist at Qiyuan Robotics, leading the push to ad

While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials. “It’s more difficult to specify problems clearly in materials science because it’s not like math, where you have a very specific definition and can get to a yes or no,” said Advaith Sridhar, a co-founder of Discovered Materials, which was part of Y Combin

His new venture, Physicl, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Inovia Capital to help world model designers and robot builders solve thorny training problems with more realistic simulations. Founder and CEO de Vigan spent the last decade building nfinite, which made it easy for brands and retailers to create 3D models of their goods and display them online. The arrival of transformer-based AI models led that company to focus more on generative ima

For a newly formed AI startup team, the hardest moment is often not after the product launches, but before it has taken shape: the technical roadmap is in place, the core members have joined, and they may even have identified a market worth pursuing, yet they have neither a mature product nor revenue data. Where will the first round of funding come from? Who would be willing to believe in a group of founders at such an early stage? This first check can oft

A graduation ceremony illustrates a new path that Pudong Venture Capital is advancing: making an investment the entry point, then connecting courses, capital, industry scenarios and entrepreneurial partners. For young teams, entrepreneurship need not begin from scratch as lone actors; entering the camp also means joining a “circle of contacts” where they can continually seek resources, exchange ideas and expand cooperation. Investment upon Admission: Patie

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Yang Jingli Editor | Li Shuiqing Zhidx reported on November 5 that today, Sand.ai (Sandai Technology), a Shanghai-based video generation foundation model startup, announced the completion of US$200 million (approximately RMB 1.334 billion) in a Series A+ funding round. This was the third funding round the company completed in 2026, bringing its cumulative fundraising over 10 months to US$300 million (appro

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sun Xiaowen Editor | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on Nov. 5 that Beijing-based large-model startup TokenRhythm today released a large model for agent tasksNeoHorse-1.5-Flash Preview and opened it to internal beta testing. According to TokenRhythm, the model underwent recursive self-improvement (RSI) iterations based on Qwen3.8-Flash. The main model has 125 billion parameters, with 6 billion activated. Accordi

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | Jiang Yu Editor | Yun Peng A “new Silicon Valley Mafia” made up of Wall Street quant interns has returned to the spotlight. Zhidx reported on November 4 that the UK’s Financial Times had recently published a profile of Meta’s Chief AI Officer, 29-year-old Chinese-American entrepreneur Alexander Wang (Alexandr Wang),discussing his influence inside Meta and the possibility of one day succeeding Zuckerberg as t

Capital Is Withdrawing from “World Models” 2026-11-08 12:09:55 Source: QbitAI Summer Never Lasts Forever Hengyu from Aofeisi QbitAI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI The sensational startup saga of Tian Keyu may have been no more than a footnote to this year’s “world model” boom taking a sharp downturn. Amid the public debate, venture capitalists’ demands regarding founders’ professional ethics became a topic of ongoing discussion and reflection both inside