How Did AI Capital Cross **$9B** In One Day? 📈🤖💸

TL;DR

• Mega AI IPO and healthcare listing drove flows
• Fresh venture rounds spanned chips, fintech, healthtech
• Infra spend surged from ETFs to nation-scale compute
• Regulators tightened guardrails around open-source assistants

HEADLINES

Cerebras Systems raised $7.1B in year’s biggest AI IPO 💹🔗

Fractile landed $220M Series B for AI chips 🧠🔗

METiS TechBio debuted on HKEX, raising HKD 2.1B 💊🔗

Baidu unveiled new AI agents, pushing daily active agents metric 🤖🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Activate invested in ElevenLabs voice AI stake 🎙️🔗

McKesson Ventures invested $26M in BranchLab Series A 🏥🔗

Bain Capital Ventures led $8M seed into Klutch AI 🏗️🔗

Nvidia CEO Foundation bought $108M CoreWeave compute for researchers 🖥️🔗

RAISES

Fractile raised $220M in a Series B led by Accel, Founders Fund 💾🔗

BranchLab raised $26M in a Series A led by McKesson Ventures 📊🔗

Nuxera AI raised $2.5M pre-seed led by Sanabil Venture Studio 🩺🔗

Extraordinary Money raised $4M pre-seed co-led by Airtree, Triple Bubble 💳🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Baidu launched upgraded DuMate and Miaoda AI agents 🚀🔗

Huawei unveiled AI-Native Framework for Intelligent Operations at MWC 📡🔗

Fin announced Fin Operator for AI-first customer support operations ☎️🔗

Xiaomi unveiled open-source autonomous driving framework Xiaomi OneVL 🚗🔗

Samsung launched Samsung AI Week 2026 global AI-powered living campaign 🏠🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Fin Operator orchestrates AI agents for complex support workflows 🤝🔗

Miaoda offers Baidu coding agents for app and enterprise 💻🔗

Xiaomi OneVL open-sources reasoning framework for autonomous driving 🧭🔗

Hermes Agent open-source agentic framework now at 140k stars ⭐🔗

I Am Creator adds AI-powered YouTube analytics and SEO tools 📺🔗

METRICS

Defiance AI Power ETF hit 54.9% year-to-date performance 📈🔗

Hermes Agent surpassed 140k GitHub stars in under three months 🌟🔗

Spectral AI reported $3.4M Q1 loss, with $31.7M BARDA funding 🩻🔗

Microsoft MDASH scored 88.45% on CyberGym vulnerability benchmark 🛡️🔗

BENCHMARKS

F4 Fund ranked 21 Series B AI-adjacent VCs, median $25.3M checks 📘🔗

TSG Venture 50 logged first IPO milestone with Cerebras listing 📊🔗

Gartner forecast via Microsoft projected enterprise software spend up 15% to $1.4T in 2026, driven by AI agents 📑🔗

INFRA & COSTS

China Six Networks plan committed over 1T yuan annually to AI compute networks ⚡🔗

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure REIT raised $1.75B IPO to buy AI data centres 🏗️🔗

Baidu Kunlunxin cluster powered ERNIE 5.1 training on proprietary AI chips 🖥️🔗

Nvidia–CoreWeave deal underscored multi‑billion cloud commitments for AI compute ☁️🔗

VALUATIONS

METiS TechBio raised HKD 2.1B, largest Hong Kong healthcare IPO 2026 🏷️🔗

Periodic Labs in talks to raise at $7.5B valuation 🧪🔗

Anthropic cited with $30B round and $380B valuation 📌🔗

POLICY

China regulators issued guidelines to advance AI agent innovation ⚖️🔗

Spain government pushed ahead with strict social media and AI rules 🇪🇸🔗

Singapore IMDA warned against unrestricted OpenClaw use in mission-critical systems 🛑🔗

Georgia AI Advisory Council convened on statewide AI governance priorities 🏛️🔗

SECTORS

Automotive deployed Xiaomi OneVL for autonomous driving reasoning 🚙🔗

Healthcare deployed Nuxera AI for Arabic hospital networks 🏥🔗

Pharma commercialization scaled BranchLab AI to optimize therapy launches 💉🔗

Retail and ecommerce adopted Alexa for Shopping as AI search front-end 🛒🔗

Cybersecurity used MDASH AI to find Windows vulnerabilities 🔐🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Legacy Code AI grew daily digest while tracking Hermes Agent surge 🌐🔗