5 Aug 2026, 17:25 UTC82 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Deal Velocity by MOST - texnologik startaplar uchun xalqaro akseleratsiya dasturiga qabul boshlandi
MOST C-Space Hub Startup Booster bilan hamkorlikda o‘z mahsulotini kengaytirish va O‘zbekiston bozorida rivojlantirishga tayyor asoschilar uchun 8 haftalik dasturni ishga tushirmoqda.
Dastur doirasida:
• amaliy vorkshoplar va mentorlik sessiyalari;
• startaplarni rivojlantirish uchun AI vositalari bilan ishlash;
• xa…
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1 Aug 2026, 00:16 UTC185 viewsread 7 August 2026 Ollama Hits $65M Series B: Open Models Go Mainstream
Ollama closed $65M Series B (Theory Ventures lead). Total funding: $88M.
What: Dead-simple way to run open-source AI models locally. No cloud vendor lock-in. No API costs.
Traction:
• 8.9M monthly developers
• $65M Series B
• Investors: Theory Ventures, Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital
Why it matters: Open models + local inference = lower costs, faste…
28 Jul 2026, 00:17 UTC263 viewsread 7 August 2026 Etched: Harvard Dropouts Hit $10.3B in 7 Months
Three founders dropped out, slept on floors, ran chip servers in a garage. Now: $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation.
What: AI inference chips that run any model faster than GPUs. Already booked $1B in customer orders.
How it happened:
- 2022: Dropped out, zero fundraising experience
- 2024: Shipped silicon, showed demos to Karpathy and Hinton
- 2025: $1B in contracts …
26 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC226 viewsread 7 August 2026 Andera Raises $37M: AI Eats Enterprise Audit
AI agents just automated internal audit—one of the most rule-bound, judgment-heavy enterprise workflows.
Andera (founded 2024, Aryo Patel & Tinah Hong) raised $37M Series A led by Lightspeed + Bain Capital Ventures.
The wedge:
• Started with Fortune 100 customers
• Proved 70% cost savings on control testing
• AI agents read evidence, run tests, write workpapers in hours…
24 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC214 viewsread 7 August 2026 Cheap Chinese AI Models Are Killing Your Startup Advantage
Almost 200 Silicon Valley founders just sent a letter to Trump urging him NOT to ban Chinese open-weight AI models like Kimi K3. Here's why this matters.
The math:
• Kimi K3: ~$0.50 per 1M tokens
• Claude 3.5: ~$3 per 1M tokens
• For a bootstrapped startup doing 10B tokens/month: $5k vs $30k
If the US bans access, hundreds of early-stage startups die insta…
23 Jul 2026, 00:17 UTC439 viewsread 7 August 2026 Physical AI robots are working factory shifts today—not tomorrow.
Walden Robotics spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026. By February, their wheeled humanoids were doing real work in a Toyota plant: loading parts, cleaning machinery, kitting components. Eight-hour shifts alongside humans.
The move: Large Behavior Models let robots learn new tasks through real-world practice instead of manual reprogra…
16 Jul 2026, 00:17 UTC272 viewsread 7 August 2026 OPEN MODELS ARE EATING CLOSED MODELS' LUNCH
Ollama raised $65M Series B. Open-source AI is now the default for cost-conscious builders.
What: Developers run LLMs locally on PCs. No API calls, no token limits. Founded by ex-Docker engineers.
Proof:
• 8.9M monthly developers
• 176K GitHub stars
• 85% Fortune 500 using it
• 14 employees, 3 years to scale
How: Free desktop tool → GitHub distribution → proved agentic …
14 Jul 2026, 00:18 UTC229 viewsread 7 August 2026 Together AI: $800M Series C at $8.3B - Open-Source AI Infrastructure Wins
Together AI just closed $800M Series C (post-$8.3B valuation) to power enterprise AI on open-source models. This is the biggest infrastructure play of Q2 2026.
What it is: Cloud platform for training and running open-source AI models (DeepSeek, MiniMax, Kimi) at 10x lower cost than proprietary APIs.
How they got there:
- Founded 2022 to sol…
12 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC264 viewsread 7 August 2026 Enterprise AI Independence: Prime Intellect's $130M Bet
Prime Intellect raised $130M Series A at $1B valuation to help enterprises build their own AI agents without relying on OpenAI or Anthropic
Key metrics:
- $100M ARR run rate (founded 2024)
- Customers: Ramp, Zapier, Flapping Airplanes
- Ramp's agent beat frontier models on accuracy while cutting costs 10x
Why it matters: Every founder building AI products fac…
4 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC329 viewsread 7 August 2026 Bending Spoons: From Failure to $18B IPO
Italian startup just went public at $18B—40% pop on day one. The real lesson: they turned a failed startup into a playbook for operational excellence.
The Model:
• Buy struggling SaaS brands (Evernote, Vimeo, Meetup)
• Cut bloat, ship AI features fast
• Revenue per employee: $1.12M (2023) → $2.57M (2025)
How They Did It:
• Failed first startup taught them luck is huge in ze…
3 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC247 viewsread 7 August 2026 Dispatch is the nerve center.
Probook just raised $40M (A16Z + Sequoia) to unify home-services dispatch. Instead of bolting AI onto existing tools, founder George Eliadis built the entire OS around dispatch—lead intake, scheduling, billing, customer thread all in one.
Why it worked:
• Founder had domain pain (ran his father's pressure-washing biz)
• Replaced 10+ point solutions with 1 integrated system
• Customers …
2 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC244 viewsread 7 August 2026 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A: Chamath's AI Coding Bet
Chamath Palihapitiya just raised $135M for 8090 Labs, his AI coding agent for enterprises. He's stepping in as CEO full-time.
The metrics:
• $135M Series A (Salesforce Ventures led)
• Product: Software Factory—AI agents that write production-quality code, not prototypes
• Enterprise controls: audit trails, compliance, governance built-in
• Investors: Katzenbe…
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