How Did AI Attract Over $20B In A Day? 💥🤖📈
TL;DR
- Bezos’ Project Prometheus quietly amassed $6.2B, targeting physical‑world AI.
- Sakana AI became Japan’s top unicorn with fresh funding.
- New AI agents launched for code, accounting, and customer support.
- Infra spend explodes as data centers and bonds chase AI.
HEADLINES
Project Prometheus Bezos’ new AI startup secures $6.2B backing 🚀🔗
Runlayer launches with $11M to secure MCP AI agents 🛡️🔗
Wonderchat debuts AI agent platform for enterprise knowledge retrieval 💬🔗
Zeni rolls out AI Accountant Agent for finance teams 📊🔗
RAISES
Sakana AI raised $135M in a Series B led by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 🐟🔗
FeedMe raised $5M in a funding round led by Integra Partners 🍽️🔗
Luminal raised $5.3M in a seed round led by Felicis Ventures 🧮🔗
NEW LAUNCHES
ASUS IoT unveiled PE3000N edge platform with NVIDIA Jetson Thor 🖥️🔗
GitLab launched AI Merge Agent to automate complex code merges 🧩🔗
accesso announced AI-powered shopping preview for theme-park guests 🎢🔗
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Perplexity teams offers shared deep-research workspaces for operators 🔎🔗
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METRICS
Data center construction spending hit $3.7B in August, up 25% YoY 📈🔗
Global AI spend estimated at $400B, yet 95% of projects unprofitable 🌐🔗
S&P 500 share of firms with AI-driven profit gains rose to 15% from 11% 💹🔗
India Inc. moved 47% of GenAI pilots to production, but AI spend stays under 20% of tech budgets 🇮🇳🔗
INFRA & COSTS
Amazon issued $15B in bonds to fund AI infrastructure expansion 🏗️🔗
Supermicro showcased liquid-cooled NVIDIA Blackwell racks for next-gen AI factories 🧊🔗
Taiwan’s pavilion brought AI-powered production lines to iREX 2025 🏭🔗
VALUATIONS
Meta shed nearly $300B in value amid $70–72B AI capex plans 🏷️🔗
Nvidia faced $5.93B in combined stake sales from SoftBank and Peter Thiel 💸🔗
Celestica highlighted as AI-hyperscale hardware winner, with upside from data-center boom 📐🔗
SECTORS
Defense facilities deployed Hytron autonomous cleaning robots in Singapore army camp 🪖🔗
Healthcare hospital CMUH achieved DIAM Stage 7 with AI-enhanced imaging 🏥🔗
Insurance in Thailand adopted AI platforms from Peak3 and EaZy Digital 📑🔗
COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Andrew Ng keeps expanding accessible AI education for non-technical professionals worldwide 📚🔗
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