How Did AI Pull In **$900M** Overnight? 💰🤖🚀

TL;DR

• Visual AI leader raised $300M Series B
• Agentic AI startups closed multi-continental seed rounds
• Cloud giants launched frontier agents and new chips
• Governments signaled massive AI-fueled growth shifts

HEADLINES

Mistral AI launched open-weight Mistral 3 frontier family 🧠🔗

Amazon Web Services previewed three long-running frontier AI agents 🤖🔗

ServiceNow acquired Veza for $1B+ AI security push 🛡️🔗

Marvell Technology agreed to buy Celestial AI for $3.25B 💾🔗

OECD said AI investment boom offsets tariff headwinds 📈🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

AMP invested $300M in Black Forest Labs 🌲🔗

Lightspeed Venture Partners invested $15M in Raindrop 🌧️🔗

Menlo Ventures invested $60M in Zafran Security 🛡️🔗

RAISES

Yoodli raised $40M in a Series B led by WestBridge Capital 🗣️🔗

Donna raised €4.1M to scale its AI assistant for field sales teams from Frontline Ventures 🚙🔗

Simular raised $21.5M in a Series A led by Felicis 🖱️🔗

Gradium raised $70M in a seed round led by FirstMark Capital 🎙️🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Amazon Web Services unveiled Kiro Autonomous Agent, Security Agent, and DevOps Agent 🚀🔗

X‑Design launched an AI branding agent claiming 70% time savings 🎨🔗

Tether Data introduced QVAC Fabric LLM for edge-first LLM inference 📡🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Raindrop monitors production AI agents for silent failures 🌧️🔗

DataHub offers open-source AI data cataloging 📚🔗

Agent S open framework for OS-level AI agents 🖥️🔗

Gradium Voice API serves ultra‑low latency multilingual AI voices 🎧🔗

METRICS

Nvidia holds 92% share of discrete GPU market 📊🔗

Zafran Security tripled ARR and reached $130M total funding 📈🔗

Synopsys jumped after $2B Nvidia equity investment signal 💹🔗

BENCHMARKS

AI Funding Tracker logged $335B+ total AI startup funding 📘🔗

Zacks updated rankings of best AI stocks for December 📊🔗

Harvard Business Review urged AI strategies beyond U.S.-China duopoly 🌍🔗

INFRA & COSTS

AWS revealed Trainium3 AI chip and Nvidia-friendly roadmap 🧮🔗

AMD & HPE expanded open rack-scale AI infra to 2.9 exaFLOPS per rack ⚙️🔗

Intellistake committed up to $10M for space-based AI data centers via Orbit AI 🛰️🔗

Applied Digital led $25M Corintis round to advance AI data-center cooling tech ❄️🔗

VALUATIONS

Peec AI tripled valuation to $100M+ after $21M Series A 🏷️🔗

Luma AI planned a 200-person London hub off $4B valuation 🎥🔗

Palo Alto Networks traded at rich multiples as AI security leader 💼🔗

POLICY

Australia Government unveiled National AI Plan, favoring investment over new rules ⚖️🔗

Utah Governor Spencer Cox pushed a “pro‑human AI” state agenda 🏛️🔗

Bank of England warned AI and private credit heighten financial risks 🏦🔗

Amazon Employees published open letter warning company’s AI could harm democracy and jobs 📜🔗

SOVEREIGN

Saudi Arabia outlined trillion‑dollar pledge spanning AI and nuclear sectors 🕌🔗

BlackRock Investment Institute turned bearish on long Treasuries, citing looming AI capex wave 🧮🔗

Australia National AI Plan tied public investment to data centers and AI Safety Institute 🇦🇺🔗

SECTORS

Field Sales deployed AI meeting prep and note-taking assistants 📋🔗

Marketing deployed generative engine optimization for AI search visibility 📣🔗

Cybersecurity deployed quantum‑resistant AI-powered data‑diode hardware 🛡️🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Ang Li shipped Simular’s Agent S desktop AI agent framework 🖥️🔗