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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 12): Cohere, XDOF & Kinetix
AI startups to watch on Sep 12, 2026: Cohere nears a $20B round, XDOF's robot data bet, and Kinetix's $70M humanoid push in China.
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AI startups to watch: the funding rounds, valuations, launches and pivots moving the needle right now. Each edition names the round size, the lead investor and the incumbent it threatens, so you can judge the company in under a minute instead of skimming a headline.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 11): Positron, Cognition & Fluidstack
AI startups on Sep 11, 2026: Positron AI raised $875M at a $5B valuation and Cognition closed a $2B Series E at $48B. Here is what the money signals.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 10): Cylake, Listen Labs & Video AI
AI startups raised big: Cylake 245M for sovereign cybersecurity, Salesforce hunts Listen Labs for 2B, Katzenberg launches AI video. Today's top moves.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 8): Mistral, Instinct AI & Stoke Space
Mistral hits €21B, Instinct AI raises $250M at $2.5B, Stoke Space $1B, HiddenLayer $100M: today's top AI startup funding across models, agents, rockets and security.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 5): Gimlet, Crusoe & FluidStack
Gimlet hits $3B on multi-chip AI, Crusoe triples to $30B, FluidStack raises $1.5B, Wayve launches UK robotaxis. AI startups worth watching Sep 5.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 4): Gimlet, Baseten & Rilo
AI startups raised $1.8B in 24 hours: Gimlet Labs hits $3B for chip-agnostic inference, Baseten reaches $13B, and Adobe acquires Rilo.
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AI Startups to Watch (Sep 3): Lyte, HiddenLayer & AIR
Lyte raised $165M at $1.6B, HiddenLayer closed $100M for AI security, and AIR came out of stealth with $50M. Top AI startup moves today.
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AfterQuery's $3.2B, Felix's $200M WhatsApp Play & Sequoia's Empirik: AI Startups to Watch for September 2, 2026
AfterQuery hits $3.2B in 5 months, Felix raises $200M for WhatsApp fintech, Sequoia spins out Empirik, and Wafer rejects acquisition offers: AI Startups for Sep 2.
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DeepSeek's $74B Valuation, Perplexity's $30B Round & Nvidia's Big Bet: AI Startups to Watch for September 1, 2026
DeepSeek nears a $74B valuation, Nvidia eyes Perplexity at $30B+, and Moonshot retires old models. AI Startups to Watch for September 1, 2026.
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HUMAIN's Saudi Robot Trucks, Google's $40M Hollywood IP Bids & UK's £100M AI Fund: AI Startups to Watch for August 31, 2026
Saudi builds world's largest autonomous truck network, Google offers $40M/character for AI licensing, UK launches £100M sovereign AI fund. August 31, 2026.
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Perplexity, Tencent, Slack & fal Ship Agent Tools: AI Startups to Watch for August 30, 2026
Perplexity adds managed connectors to its Agent API, Tencent ships a 770B model, Slack launches one-click agent deployment, and fal turns video into live broadcast.
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Lambda's $1B Debt, Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face Bet and OpenAI Drops Cursor: AI Startups to Watch for August 29, 2026
Lambda takes $1B in debt and eyes a $3B round, Nvidia nears a $13B Hugging Face deal, and OpenAI drops Cursor. The AI startups disrupting on August 29.