How Did AI Deals Top **$540M** Before Lunch? 📈🤖💸

TL;DR

• Enterprise AI agents pulled in mega-growth funding
• AI video platforms race toward billion-dollar scale
• Chipmakers boost capex to meet GPU demand
• New AI tools target agents, data extraction, infra

HEADLINES

GovDash expanded AI gov-contracting platform with $30M raise 🏛️🔗

Parloa hit $3B valuation for contact-center AI 📞🔗

Higgsfield extended Series A, reaching $1.3B valuation 🎬🔗

TSMC boosted AI-node capex to $52B–$56B 🖥️🔗

Ankr launched Neura AI Layer 1 testnet 🧬🔗

TikTok teased AI-powered co-viewing Shared Feeds 📱🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Mucker Capital invested $30M in GovDash 🏛️🔗

General Catalyst led $350M into Parloa 🤝🔗

Paladin Capital Group led $6.1M for Dam Secure 🛡️🔗

Accel and Menlo Ventures extended $80M into Higgsfield 🎥🔗

RAISES

GovDash raised $30M in a Series B led by Mucker Capital 📊🔗

Parloa raised $350M in a Series D from General Catalyst 🤖🔗

Higgsfield raised $80M as a Series A extension from Accel, Menlo, AI Capital 📹🔗

Dam Secure raised $6.1M in a seed round led by Paladin Capital Group 🧩🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Fetch.ai launched FetchCoder V2 autonomous-agent IDE copilot 💻🔗

Ankr unveiled Neura AI-focused Layer 1 public testnet 🧠🔗

GIGABYTE showcased AI TOP Utility for local AI workloads 🖥️🔗

MOVA Life announced an AI-enabled smart health home lineup 🏠🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Box Extract turns enterprise content into structured AI-ready data 📂🔗

FetchCoder V2 offers spec-driven autonomous agent coding 🧑‍💻🔗

Neura Testnet provides decentralized GPUs and AI infra primitives ⚙️🔗

METRICS

Higgsfield hit 15M users and 4.5M daily video generations 📊🔗

Higgsfield reported $200M ARR, doubling in two months 📈🔗

GovDash grew revenue 16x and customers 18x since 2024 📌🔗

TSMC Q4 revenue rose 20.5% year-over-year 💹🔗

Asian equities traded near record highs on AI optimism 🌏🔗

BENCHMARKS

China.org.cn forecast stronger commercialization across China’s AI healthcare sector 🩺🔗

TSMC said HPC and AI chips now drive 55% of revenue 📘🔗

RSAC promoted AI-in-finance playbooks at upcoming conference 🏦🔗

Dark Reading RSAC review noted agentic AI dominating cybersecurity conference themes 🧷🔗

INFRA & COSTS

TSMC plans $52B–$56B capex for advanced AI nodes 🏗️🔗

Trump administration approved NVIDIA H200 exports with a 25% fee 🚢🔗

Ankr Neura introduced decentralized GPU marketplace for AI startups 🧮🔗

GIGABYTE optimized local AI rigs for TOP Utility benchmarks ⚡🔗

VALUATIONS

Higgsfield reached $1.3B valuation after Series A extension 🏷️🔗

Parloa hit $3B valuation eight months after prior round 💬🔗

Torq was valued at $1.2B in Series D 🛡️🔗

xAI logged a $20B Series E financing milestone 🚀🔗

POLICY

EU regulators moved against Grok deepfakes under new rules ⚖️🔗

South Korea reversed rules on its flagship national AI project 📜🔗

Trump administration framed NVIDIA export approval as new AI governance chapter 🏛️🔗

Australian regulators scrutinized ChatGPT Health launch over data residency 🩺🔗

SOVEREIGN

Trump administration turned NVIDIA H200 exports into revenue-sharing channel 🏦🔗

Chinese health authorities backed expanded commercialization of medical AI 🧬🔗

Asian policymakers rode AI optimism as equities neared records 🌐🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed ChatGPT Health for patient triage and advice 💉🔗

Government contracting adopted AI proposal automation via GovDash 📃🔗

Education embraced AI-powered learning with MindHYVE.ai and OUK 🎓🔗

Smart home health deployed AI wellness monitoring through MOVA devices 📡🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Alex Mashrabov shared bold vision for AI-generated content futures 🎨🔗