Perplexity $9B Valuation?! Emmett Shear’s New Startup, AI Cursor Raises at $2B Valuation, TikTok Recommendation
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Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round (TechCrunch)
Boon raises $20.5M to build agentic AI tools for fleets (TechCrunch)
Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z (TechCrunch)
In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation led by Thrive (TechCrunch)
Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model (TechCrunch)
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