What Signals Are Hiding In Today’s $24.8B AI Moves? 📊🤖🌍

TL;DR

• Mega-funds circle OpenAI and Europe, concentrating AI power
• Fresh AI rounds fuel finance, health, security workflows
• New launches push Gemini kitchens and AI forums
• Benchmarks show AI funding and energy use spiking

HEADLINES

SoftBank races to assemble $22.5B OpenAI war chest 💰🔗

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs targets €500M raise at €3B valuation 🧠🔗

Lovable hits $330M Series B at $6.6B valuation 🧑‍💻🔗

Samsung unveils kitchen AI Vision built with Gemini 🍳🔗

Hyperbots builds CFO-grade agentic AI finance copilots 📑🔗

KRAFTON-NAVER-Mirae Fund plans Rs 6,000 Cr India AI-focused pool 🇮🇳🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

DCVC invested in Mythic’s $125M analog AI round ⚙️🔗

CapitalG backed $330M into vibe-coding startup Lovable 🧩🔗

CVS Health Ventures led $35M Series C for Codoxo 🏥🔗

Amplify Partners led $22.5M Series A for DataLane 📍🔗

RAISES

Codoxo raised $35M in Series C led by CVS Health Ventures 💳🔗

Thread raised $18M in growth round from Susquehanna Growth Equity 📞🔗

HEN Technologies raised $20M Series A plus $2M venture debt 🔥🔗

Verisoul raised $8.8M Series A for AI fraud detection 🛡️🔗

Axion raised $37M Series B for AI manufacturing quality platform 🏭🔗

RAISING

AMI Labs is looking to raise €500M at €3B valuation for world-model AI 🚀🔗

SoftBank is working to marshal $22.5B for OpenAI data-center buildout 🏦🔗

KRAFTON-NAVER-Mirae Unicorn Fund is targeting up to Rs 6,000 Cr for India-focused tech, including AI 🐘🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Samsung announced AI Vision cooking assistant built on Google Gemini 🍲🔗

Samsung launched CES tech forums spotlighting next-wave AI, XR, chips 🎤🔗

HP detailed HP Wolf Security, an AI-powered endpoint protection suite 🖥️🔗

Namibox unveiled AI-powered learning glasses ahead of December 31 launch 👓🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Hyperbots offers agentic AI copilots for finance workflows 📊🔗

DataLane provides AI-driven identity graph for 20M+ local businesses 📌🔗

Codoxo uses generative AI to prevent healthcare payment waste 💉🔗

Thread automates MSP service desks with AI agents ☎️🔗

METRICS

SoftBank–OpenAI deal centers on up to $30B total commitment 📈🔗

Lovable tripled valuation to $6.6B in five months 📊🔗

Mythic APUs claim 100x energy efficiency over leading GPUs 🔋🔗

European AI funding up 161% year-on-year across top hubs 🇪🇺🔗

KRAFTON India fund targets more than Rs 3,000 Cr initial close 📦🔗

BENCHMARKS

Sifted analysis shows Europe’s AI investment up 161% in 2025 📘🔗

Korea’s new AI startup playbook reduces audits, extends R&D runway for founders 📑🔗

India infrastructure op-ed argues infra scale beats startup count for AI 🏗️🔗

Amazon AWS AI spend drives bullish analyst targets into year-end 📡🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Mythic touts 120 TOPS-per-watt analog APUs for AI inference 🔌🔗

SoftBank–OpenAI Stargate targets 30GW of AI compute capacity 🏗️🔗

Seagate flags AI storage demand as core growth driver 💽🔗

Samsung CES forums will showcase AI, advanced chips and energy-efficient systems 💡🔗

VALUATIONS

Resolve AI reached $1B valuation on Series A round 🏷️🔗

Lovable now valued at $6.6B after Series B 💸🔗

AMI Labs is targeting €3B pre-launch valuation 📐🔗

Notion secondary sale pegs valuation around $11B 📂🔗

POLICY

Korea’s startup playbook trims tax audits, aligns AI R&D incentives ⚖️🔗

US executive order pushes for unified national AI policy standard 🦅🔗

EU Council backs regulation enabling publicly funded AI gigafactories 🇪🇺🔗

California SB-53 mandates transparency for frontier AI risk disclosures 📜🔗

SOVEREIGN

SoftBank–OpenAI agreement aligns Japanese capital with US AI supremacy push 🏛️🔗

Temasek joins $10.9B Clearwater Analytics deal to boost AI software 🕌🔗

EuroHPC AI gigafactories plan redirects unused EU funds to compute 🏗️🔗

India-focused KRAFTON fund channels Korean capital into Indian AI ecosystem 🌏🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed AI payment integrity to cut claims waste 🏥🔗

Manufacturing deployed AI quality platform for production-line anomaly detection 🏭🔗

Fire safety deployed predictive AI platform for wildfires and suppression 🔥🔗

Fraud prevention deployed behavioral AI to classify fake versus real users 🕵️🔗

Enterprise finance deployed agentic AI to automate invoice and accrual workflows 💼🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Yann LeCun is spinning up AMI Labs and targeting €500M to re-architect world-model AI 🌍🔗