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ElevenLabs Hires OpenAI Sales Leader as Enterprise Revenue Reaches 55%

The appointment puts a dedicated leader over sales and partnerships as business customers become the larger share of the voice AI company’s revenue. The disclosed percentages show a changing mix, not the dollar scale behind it. Business customers have become the larger side of ElevenLabs’ revenue mix, making sales and partnership execution a more immediate part of its growth plan.

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DeepSeek Reportedly Seeks $7.4 Billion at $74 Billion Valuation for Compute Buildout

The proposed financing would move the AI lab further beyond its founder’s quant fund, while giving prospective investors a larger bet on research, infrastructure and a possible Shanghai listing. DeepSeek is reportedly seeking at least $7.4 billion in new funding at a potential $74 billion valuation, a proposed round aimed at research and development and an expansion of its computing infrastructure.

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Anthropic’s Reported $30 Trillion IPO TAM Would Turn Labor Tasks Into Its Market

A colossal market figure shifts the IPO conversation from near-term sales to the boundaries of what counts as an AI market. A prospective Anthropic IPO could put more than $30 trillion of potential AI work at the center of its valuation case. The reported calculation would define the company’s market through tasks AI can take on, rather than through a conventional software category.

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Alice Raises $140M to Pair Model Testing With Enterprise AI Guardrails

The former ActiveFence is funding a lifecycle security pitch: test models for hostile behavior before launch, then apply customer-specific controls after AI reaches company data and tools. Alice has raised $140 million to expand an AI security platform built for two different moments: before a model is released and after an enterprise puts it to work. Apax Digital will join Alice’s board.

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Nvidia Is Reportedly Discussing a Perplexity Stake at a $30 Billion-Plus Valuation

The prospective deal would extend a relationship that already includes Nvidia investment and a Vera CPU workload commitment. But the reported round has not been independently verified, leaving its terms and even its completion unresolved. Nvidia is reportedly discussing a fresh equity investment in Perplexity that could value the AI search startup at more than $30 billion.

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August 2026

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Veeda AI Raises $90M to Make Robot Training Less Physical

The new company is betting that robots cannot learn fast enough, cheaply enough, or safely enough through physical trial and error—and that world models can move that work into simulation. Veeda AI has emerged with a $90 million seed round and a narrow proposition for physical AI: the limiting resource for robot learning is not only compute, but the inability to safely and cheaply repeat experience in the real world.

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Starcloud Has $250 Million for Orbital AI. It Still Needs a Ride.

The startup is financing factories, satellites and launch reservations at once. Its near-term 2027 missions are smaller tests; the data-center-scale ambition still rests on Starship becoming a frequent commercial launch option. Starcloud ’s pitch is an orbital layer for AI inference, but its $250 million funding extension cannot solve the constraint at the center of that plan: getting enough spacecraft to orbit.

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Micro1’s Reported $500M Run Rate Tests the Economics of AI Training Data

The startup’s reported growth comes with an important accounting gap: two figures published about its take from gross volume do not reconcile, even as reusable synthetic data promises higher margins. Micro1’s gross annual run rate reportedly rose from $100 million to $500 million in eight months. Micro1 began as an AI recruiting startup before founder Ali Ansari moved it into data labeling.

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