How Did One AI IPO Jump 60% On Debut? 🚀📈🤖

TL;DR

• MiniMax IPO pops over 50%, hits $9.8B
• Frontier labs chase $30B plus in fresh capital
• New AI hardware packs 1 petaFLOP on a desk
• Saudi-backed fund to seed 25 local AI startups

HEADLINES

MiniMax Group Hong Kong AI IPO surges 50% 💹🔗

xAI secures $20B to fuel AGI race 🧠🔗

Anthropic targets $10B raise at $350B valuation 🏛️🔗

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin AI superchip ⚙️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Blackstone invested $400M in Cyera 🛡️🔗

Felicis Ventures invested $150M in LMArena 📊🔗

Andreessen Horowitz invested $30M in Protege 🧾🔗

Adara Ventures invested in Series B for Articul8 AI 💼🔗

RAISES

xAI raised $20B in a Series E led by Valor Equity Partners 🚀🔗

Cyera raised $400M in a Series F led by Blackstone 🔐🔗

LMArena raised $150M in a Series A co-led by Felicis 📈🔗

Blackbird.AI raised $28M in a strategic round from Ten Eleven Ventures 🕵️🔗

RAISING

Anthropic is looking to raise $10B in a new round for frontier model compute 🌋🔗

Articul8 AI is looking to raise $70M in a Series B for regulated-enterprise GenAI expansion 🏭🔗

Poolside is looking to raise $2B in a growth round for AI coding platform scale-up 💻🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health for medical queries 🏥🔗

Nvidia unveiled Vera Rubin AI compute platform 🖥️🔗

GIGABYTE launched AI TOP ATOM personal AI supercomputer 💡🔗

Union Image unveiled POC Studio visual AI productization division 📷🔗

MagicLab debuted Gen1 general-purpose humanoid robot lineup 🤖🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

OpenCode open-source AI coding agent for developers 🛠️🔗

Livedocs AI-native IDE for data analysis workflows 📊🔗

Capacity AI-powered knowledge base for internal support 💬🔗

METRICS

MiniMax Group IPO jumped about 50–60% on debut 📈🔗

MiniMax raised $619M and hit $9.8B market cap 💹🔗

Ai-Media Technologies trades at A$0.77 with 32.7% implied upside 📊🔗

AI healthcare companies attracted $18B, or 46% of sector investment 🩺🔗

AI investments made up 33% of U.S. VC in 2024 💵🔗

BENCHMARKS

Silicon Valley Bank reports AI is 46% of healthcare investment 📘🔗

Statista analysis shows AI deals hit 33% of U.S. VC 📊🔗

LinkedIn finds four AI roles in 2026 top-five “Jobs on the Rise” 📈🔗

Wharton + GBK Collective enterprise study highlights rapid GenAI operationalization 📑🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 packs 72 GPUs per system 🔌🔗

GIGABYTE AI TOP 500 supports models up to 405B parameters 🧮🔗

GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM delivers 1 petaFLOP FP4 on desktop 💻🔗

PowerBank–Smartlink AI Genesis-1 runs AI model directly in-orbit 🛰️🔗

VALUATIONS

Anthropic targeting $350B valuation in new mega-round 🏷️🔗

xAI valued near $200B after $20B raise 💥🔗

MiniMax Group debuts around $9.8B market capitalization 📌🔗

Articul8 AI crosses $500M valuation under two years 📈🔗

POLICY

NIST CAISI issued RFI on AI agent security ⚖️🔗

EU AI Office ramps up AI Act enforcement ahead of February deadlines 🇪🇺🔗

US states activate new 2026 laws on AI hiring tools 📜🔗

Regulators oversee ChatGPT Health rollout into clinical workflows 🩺🔗

Courts, Google, Character.AI move toward settlement in teen chatbot harm cases ⚖️🔗

SOVEREIGN

GIC positioned to anchor Anthropic $10B round 🏦🔗

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority anchor-invested in MiniMax Hong Kong AI IPO 🕌🔗

Red Sea Global and Bunat VC launched Saudi-focused AI venture fund 🏛️🔗

US climate withdrawal adds uncertainty for AI energy buildouts 🌎🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed ChatGPT Health for consumer triage and guidance 🩺🔗

Construction and heavy equipment deployed Nvidia-powered edge AI inside machinery 🏗️🔗

Energy and satellites deployed in-orbit AI models on Genesis-1 🛰️🔗

Utilities deployed governed GenAI frameworks for grid analytics ⚡🔗

Education deployed Gemini-powered podcast lessons in Google Classroom 🎧🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

James Dargan chronicled AI funding, health, and policy shifts across multiple exclusives 📰🔗