CNBC reported Asian tech stocks fell as AI-related IPOs and fundraising appeared to divert investor capital from listed chip names.

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, setting up a potential public-market debut in the AI boom.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding, lifting its valuation to $965 billion and surpassing OpenAI.

Anthropic is reportedly discussing a funding round that could value the AI company above OpenAI.

ComfyUI raised $30M at a $500M valuation, reflecting surging demand for tools that give creators fine-grained control over AI image, video, and audio output.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, signaling growing investor confidence in China's AI sector.

Anthropic has rebuffed preemptive VC funding offers valuing it at over $800 billion, more than double its February fundraise valuation.

Anthropic's run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion in 2026, up from $9 billion, driven by surging demand for its Claude AI model.

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly in early discussions with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for an IPO as soon as October 2026 that could raise over $60 billion, making it one of the largest tech listings in history.

OpenAI has grown its historic funding round to over $120 billion as CFO Sarah Friar signals the company is eyeing a potential IPO later in 2026, cementing its position as the world's most valuable AI startup.

Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI secured $450 million in Series A funding led by Premji Invest, reaching a $1.7 billion valuation, to develop foundational robotics models trained on publicly available internet videos using its 'Direct Video Action' approach—aiming to give robots the generalization ability that teleoperation alone cannot provide.

AMI Labs, the Paris-based AI startup co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop world models—AI systems that learn from physical reality rather than language alone.

Global venture capital investment hit a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo accounting for the lion's share, according to a new Crunchbase report.

As OpenAI nears a $100 billion funding round and Anthropic closes a $30 billion raise, at least twelve direct OpenAI investors — including Founders Fund, Sequoia, Iconiq, and BlackRock — have also backed Anthropic, shattering a longstanding venture capital conflict-of-interest norm.

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk to develop spatial intelligence models that can perceive and interact with the 3D world.

Moonshot AI targets $10 billion valuation backed by Alibaba and Tencent, just weeks after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion valuation with Kimi chatbot.

Anthropic leads with $30 billion Series G at $380 billion valuation as US AI startups secure massive funding rounds, with three companies crossing $1 billion.

AI startup Anthropic closes $30B Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, achieving $380B valuation with $14B run-rate revenue growing 10x annually.

Data analytics and AI company Databricks announces $7 billion in new investments including $5 billion equity and $2 billion debt, more than doubling its valuation to $134 billion in 13 months.

AI video generation startup Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding led by General Atlantic, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion as it shifts focus to developing advanced world models.