How Did AI Funding Hit **$141B** Amid Power Crunch? 💸⚡🤖

TL;DR

• Mega-rounds push frontier labs to sky valuations
• World-model bets attract billion-dollar seed checks
• Infra squeeze as AI data centers chase power
• Sovereign funds ramp up multi‑GW AI capacity

HEADLINES

OpenAI closes $110B round, hits $840B valuation 🤯🔗

Anthropic raises $30B Series G, doubles to $380B 🧠🔗

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs debuts with $1.03B seed war chest 🚀🔗

SoftBank plans 10GW Ohio AI campus, $70B price tag 🏗️🔗

Nvidia hints $30B OpenAI stake may be last 💼🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank invested $110B in OpenAI 🤝🔗

GIC, Coatue invested $30B in Anthropic 📈🔗

Bezos Expeditions, Nvidia, Samsung invested $1.03B in AMI Labs 🌍🔗

Saudi PIF backed 6.6GW sovereign AI compute buildout 🏦🔗

RAISES

AMI Labs raised $1.03B seed led by deep-tech investors 🧬🔗

Anthropic raised $30B Series G from global sovereign capital 🤖🔗

OpenAI raised $110B late-stage round from strategic partners 💰🔗

Harvey raised $160M Series F for legal AI expansion ⚖️🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Sarvam AI launched Sarvam Startup Program with API credits 🚀🔗

Grok Imagine unveiled new Chibi image templates update 🎨🔗

HiTHIUM announced AI data center storage product suite 🔋🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Sarvam Models offer multilingual LLMs for India 🗣️🔗

Grok Imagine generates short chibi-style AI videos 📹🔗

Harvey powers AI-native legal workflows 📚🔗

METRICS

Anthropic hit $14B annual run-rate revenue 📊🔗

OpenAI now valued around $840B post-money 🏦🔗

AI data centers projected to reach 1,000 TWh power use by 2026 ⚡🔗

Goldman Sachs sees data center power demand up 175% by 2030 📈🔗

BENCHMARKS

Rothschild & Co flagged two $1B+ European AI rounds 📘🔗

Alger estimates AI investment near 6% of US capex 🏛️🔗

Calamos highlights AI as cross-sector thematic core 🧭🔗

Goldman Sachs projects sustained peak occupancy in AI data centers 📑🔗

INFRA & COSTS

SoftBank planning 10GW Ohio AI campus, $33B gas plant 🏭🔗

Oracle, OpenAI scrapped extra 0.8GW Stargate expansion in Texas 🧊🔗

Taiwan grid expects extra 5GW demand from AI by 2030 ⚙️🔗

Axios counts 11GW 2026 AI capacity still “announced only” 📡🔗

VALUATIONS

OpenAI implied valuation around $730B pre-money 🏷️🔗

Anthropic doubled valuation to roughly $380B 💹🔗

AMI Labs seeded at $3.5B pre‑product valuation 🧱🔗

Harvey climbed toward $11B valuation in late-stage talks 📜🔗

POLICY

US White House flagged 550% AI power surge by 2026 ⚖️🔗

Trump administration pushed “ratepayer protection” pledge for AI data centers 🏛️🔗

AP report highlights transmission build‑out for AI-heavy grids ⚡🔗

NBER study notes modest 1.4% projected productivity lift 📑🔗

SOVEREIGN

Saudi PIF targeting 6.6GW sovereign AI compute capacity 🏜️🔗

PIF-backed Humain awarded major AI data center contract to MIS 🏗️🔗

Gulf SWFs pivot toward AI as diversification pillar 🌍🔗

India AI Impact Summit cemented state-backed BharatGen Param2 model strategy 🇮🇳🔗

SECTORS

Defense adopted Palantir AI as core intel system 🛰️🔗

Healthcare scaled AI diagnostics toward multi‑hundred‑billion market 🩺🔗

Energy deployed AI-optimized storage for data center loads 🔌🔗

Legal services integrated Harvey for enterprise-scale case research 📚🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Etienne Noumen (AI Unraveled) curated daily briefings on OpenAI’s $110B war chest 📣🔗