
Travis Kalanick's Atoms eyes robotaxis after $1.7B raise
The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The payments giant is paying more than 5x OpenRouter's May valuation to own the routing layer between apps and 400+ AI models.

Endeavor Optical Networks wants to replace undersea fiber with a 20-satellite laser mesh targeting 2.4 Tbps between continents.

Sequoia led the round; the AI inference chip startup says it has booked $1B in orders and is running silicon in its lab.

Andreessen Horowitz leads a $1.7B round for the ex-Uber CEO's robotics play, with Uber itself joining nine years after pushing him out.

The network automation startup is already live across 35 GPU clusters and about 1 million GPUs at customers including Foxconn and HPE.

Founder Peter Elias says tighter harness engineering lets Probably run on models four classes weaker than the frontier, cutting token costs.

The former a16z partner who helped author the AI Action Plan plans to build an outside institution shaping Trump AI policy.

The AI gateway startup more than doubled its value in a year as token volume surged 5x.

Andreessen-backed Exa joins Parallel Web Systems in the race to reinvent search as Google moves to AI-powered discovery.

Build American AI is offering creators $5,000 per TikTok to amplify anti-China messaging, funded by a $100M dark-money operation.

Signull Labs closed the round at a $19.5M post-money valuation in September 2025, with a16z and True Ventures backing the unlaunched app.
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