
Bezos's Physical AI Lab Hits $38B After $10B Round
Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry.
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Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry.

OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5 ships today to ChatGPT and Codex, leading on Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 82.7% with a doubled per-token price.

OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5, targeting agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work at $5/$30 per million tokens.

Vast Data closes a $1B Series F at $30B valuation - triple its 2023 price - with NVIDIA, Drive Capital, and Access Industries backing its push to own the data layer for AI infrastructure.

Google replaced Vertex AI with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026 - a full-stack control plane that assigns every agent a cryptographic ID and routes all tool calls through a central policy gateway.

OpenAI launches Codex Transformation Partners with Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, TCS, and others, and embeds its own engineers at client sites via Codex Labs as weekly users hit 4 million.

Mira Murati's AI lab signs a single-digit-billion deal with Google Cloud for GB300 chip access, its first cloud provider commitment, as frontier labs race to lock in next-gen compute.

Uber's CTO admits the company has exhausted its full-year AI spending allocation in four months, driven by runaway Claude Code adoption across 95% of engineers.

OpenAI's first domain-specific reasoning model for biology and drug discovery, launched April 16 2026 as a US-only research preview with a 0.751 BixBench score.

Anthropic's annualized revenue crossed $30 billion in April 2026, topping OpenAI's $24 billion run rate and marking the first time a rival has outpaced OpenAI in the generative AI race.

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, cementing Trainium as Claude's primary compute platform.

Factory closed a $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation to expand its Droids - autonomous agents that handle the full software development lifecycle, not just code generation.