How Did AI Deals Top $1.5B Today? 🚀📈🤖

TL;DR

• Lambda secured a huge $1.5B Series E, aiming gigawatt AI factories
• Vertical SaaS AI rounds in accounting, tax surge
• Google launched Gemini 3, claiming new benchmark dominance
• Public markets wobble as AI valuation fears intensify

HEADLINES

Google unleashed Gemini 3 across core products 🧠🔗

Jeff Bezos committed $6.2B to new AI startup 🚀🔗

Maxima raised $41M to automate accounting 📊🔗

Lambda secured $1.5B Series E for AI infra 🖥️🔗

Ramp launched AI agents as valuation hits $32B 💸🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested $21M in Sphere 🏦🔗

Singular invested $21M in Peec AI 📈🔗

Redpoint Ventures invested in Maxima’s $41M round 🤝🔗

RAISES

Maxima raised $41M in a Series A led by investors including Kleiner Perkins 📊🔗

Lambda raised $1.5B in a Series E from institutional investors for AI infrastructure 💽🔗

Peec AI raised $21M in a Series A led by Singular 📣🔗

Sphere raised $21M in a Series A led by a16z 🧾🔗

Asseta AI raised $4.2M in a seed round for family-office accounting automation 📑🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Google unveiled Gemini 3 flagship foundation model 🧠🔗

Salesforce launched eVerse simulation for training AI agents 🕹️🔗

SS&C launched agentic AI for complex financial operations 🤖🔗

Ramp unveiled AI finance tools for enterprises 💼🔗

Kortix relaunched with super AI worker Suna 🛠️🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Mindtrip B2B offers AI concierge tools for hotels 🏨🔗

AppsFlyer AI suite adds eight products for measurement automation 📊🔗

Kentik Autopilot brings autonomous investigation to networks 🌐🔗

OPEN Mainnet tracks AI data attribution for creators ⛓️🔗

Ax 1.0 optimizes experiments with ML-driven tuning ⚙️🔗

METRICS

Hong Kong AI hub reached 500 organizations, 23% IPO surge 📈🔗

Peec AI hit $4M+ ARR and 1,300 brands 📊🔗

Gartner says 67% finance leaders more optimistic on AI 📘🔗

EY survey finds firms lose 40% of AI gains 🧮🔗

Berg Insight projects on-device AI market to $30.6B by 2029 📱🔗

BENCHMARKS

Microsoft WorkLab profiled frontier firms’ AI-first operating models 📘🔗

Google Gemini 3 claimed lead on math, science, multimodal benchmarks 🏁🔗

Gartner finance AI shows steady adoption, rising optimism 📊🔗

HR survey finds 59% cite AI trust as top barrier 🧑‍💼🔗

Console Connect reports 81% leaders fear GenAI infra strain 📉🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Lambda earmarked $1.5B to build gigawatt AI factories ⚡🔗

IBM and AMD powering Zyphra cluster with MI300X GPUs 🧠🔗

NVIDIA detailed GPU-accelerated AI data platform architectures 💽🔗

Supermicro launched turnkey NVIDIA Blackwell AI factory clusters 🏗️🔗

Crusoe, EdgeMode, Forestalia advanced multi-billion data center buildouts for AI 🏭🔗

VALUATIONS

Maxima reached $143M valuation post Seed and Series A 🏷️🔗

Ramp hit $32B valuation alongside AI agents launch 💰🔗

Zyphra confirmed $1B valuation alongside GPU cluster deal 🦄🔗

Tech stocks fell on mounting AI valuation worries 📉🔗

Wall Street indexes extended selloff ahead of Nvidia AI earnings 📊🔗

POLICY

RBJ analysis highlighted state surge as federal AI oversight recedes ⚖️🔗

State-level AI laws tightened focus on workplace bias and audits 📜🔗

IBM watsonx.governance positioned as toolkit for upcoming AI rules 🧩🔗

Cloudflare survey found 87% fear AI-fueled data breaches 🔐🔗

ACI Digital Assets Forum put AI in compliance spotlight for regulators 🏛️🔗

SOVEREIGN

SAP and Mistral AI formed alliance for European sovereign AI cloud 🇪🇺🔗

European data spaces conference explored sovereign, sectoral AI infrastructure strategy 🏛️🔗

Vietnam initiative mapped nearly $2B AI data center campus 🌏🔗

New Economy Canada tied AI growth to clean power push ⚡🔗

NxtGen webinar spotlighted India’s sovereign AI coding autopilot 🇮🇳🔗

SECTORS

Hospitality deployed AI trip-planning tools for hotel upsell 🛎️🔗

Financial services deployed agentic AI for back-office operations 🏦🔗

Real estate adopted AI visualization for listing experiences 🏠🔗

Knowledge platforms deployed vectorized Wikidata for open-source AI 📚🔗

Networking deployed autonomous investigation for observability incidents 🌐🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Jeff Bezos stepped in as co-CEO, funding $6.2B AI venture 🚀🔗