Journals

Rest of World: A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement  —  Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving… Read More »A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs’ focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more  —  AI is now so present in our lives that the story of… Read More »Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs’ focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Chris Metinko / Axios: Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020  —  Thoma Bravo bought a majority stake in enterprise Java platform… Read More »Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Lisa Du / Bloomberg: General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm’s first growth equity investment in Japan  —  General Atlantic completed its first growth equity investment in Japan and plans… Read More »General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm’s first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)

InsurTech Analyst: Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+  —  Federato, the AI-native insurance software provider, has secured $100m in its Series D round… Read More »Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+ (InsurTech Analyst)

Bloomberg: New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion  —  Emergency services company RapidSOS raised $100 million in a deal led by Apax… Read More »New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion (Bloomberg)

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland’s sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles  —  Finnish startup NestAI has raised €100 million (about $115 million) in a… Read More »Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland’s sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Rani Molla / Sherwood News: Alphabet’s stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google’s Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers  —  The internet giant has a lot going for it… Read More »Alphabet’s stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google’s Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

Gianluca Semeraro / Reuters: Italy’s competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google’s alleged unfair practices over users’ personal data after Google adopted remedies  —  Italy’s competition authority said on Friday it had closed a probe it had launched… Read More »Italy’s competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google’s alleged unfair practices over users’ personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: China’s Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026  —  It has also told some potential investors that… Read More »Sources: China’s Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026 (Wall Street Journal)