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Rounds, valuations, acquisitions and partnerships · who with whom · latest 8 below, 16 in the table

Oct 20, 2026Acquisition
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
Acquires Orchestra Bio
openai.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Oct 8, 2026Funding
Arena Intelligence raises $200M Series B at $3.1B valuation
Series B · $200M at $3.1B valuation
arena.ai (source, opens in a new tab)
Sep 8, 2026Funding
Mistral raises €3B Series D at ~€21B valuation
Series D · €3B at $24.4B valuation
reuters.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Sep 3, 2026Acquisition
NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9B
To acquire Hugging Face · $12.9B
Agreement to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9B (incl. up to $1B retention equity); expected to close in H1 2027 subject to approvals.
blogs.nvidia.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Jul 29, 2026Funding
Moonshot AI raises $3.5B at $35B valuation^*
Round led by National AI Industry Investment Fund · $3.5B at $35B valuation
Reported $3.5B at about $35B, led by China's state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund (Bloomberg). Straits Times reported a higher ~$45B valuation; not confirmed by Moonshot.
bloomberg.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Jun 16, 2026Acquisition
SpaceX to acquire Cursor maker Anysphere in $60B all-stock deal
Acquires Anysphere (Cursor) · $60B
All-stock merger announced June 16, 2026 and closed August 14, 2026 per SpaceX SEC filings; Anysphere shareholders received about 389.3M SpaceX Class A shares. Cursor joins SpaceXAI's coding push.
reuters.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Jun 16, 2026Funding
DeepSeek closes first external round of over $7B
First external round · ¥50B+ at $50B valuation
Per The Information via Reuters: >¥50B (~$7.4B) at a post-money valuation above $50B, with an unusual deal structure.
reuters.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Jun 11, 2026Acquisition
OpenAI to acquire Ona for secure cloud execution of Codex agents
To acquire Ona
openai.com (source, opens in a new tab)

Latest 16 rounds & deals as a table

Date	Event	Type	Counterparty / round	Amount	Valuation	Source
Oct 20, 2026	OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio Life-sciences acquisition announced on OpenAI's blog; terms not disclosed.	Acquisition	acquires Orchestra Bio	—	—	openai.com
Oct 8, 2026	Arena Intelligence raises $200M Series B at $3.1B valuation Arena (formerly LMArena) raises a $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed and Khosla; company says it has passed $100M annualised revenue and launches an Alignment Index.	Funding	Series B	$200M	$3.1B	arena.ai
Sep 8, 2026	Mistral raises €3B Series D at ~€21B valuation Valuation ~€21B (≈$24.4B). Confirmed by Reuters and TechCrunch.	Funding	Series D	€3B	$24.4B	reuters.com
Sep 3, 2026	NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9B Agreement to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9B (incl. up to $1B retention equity); expected to close in H1 2027 subject to approvals.	Acquisition	to acquire Hugging Face	$12.9B	—	blogs.nvidia.com
Jul 29, 2026	Moonshot AI raises $3.5B at $35B valuation^* Reported $3.5B at about $35B, led by China's state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund (Bloomberg). Straits Times reported a higher ~$45B valuation; not confirmed by Moonshot.	Funding	Round led by National AI Industry Investment Fund	$3.5B	$35B	bloomberg.com
Jun 16, 2026	SpaceX to acquire Cursor maker Anysphere in $60B all-stock deal All-stock merger announced June 16, 2026 and closed August 14, 2026 per SpaceX SEC filings; Anysphere shareholders received about 389.3M SpaceX Class A shares. Cursor joins SpaceXAI's coding push.	Acquisition	acquires Anysphere (Cursor)	$60B	—	reuters.com
Jun 16, 2026	DeepSeek closes first external round of over $7B Per The Information via Reuters: >¥50B (~$7.4B) at a post-money valuation above $50B, with an unusual deal structure.	Funding	First external round	¥50B+	$50B	reuters.com
Jun 11, 2026	OpenAI to acquire Ona for secure cloud execution of Codex agents Ona's customer-controlled cloud environments let long-running Codex agents run inside an organisation's own cloud. Subject to regulatory approval.	Acquisition	to acquire Ona	—	—	openai.com
May 28, 2026	Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation Led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia; co-led by Capital Group, Coatue, D1, GIC, ICONIQ and XN. Includes $15B of previously committed hyperscaler investment, $5B of it from Amazon. Run-rate revenue had crossed $47B.	Funding	Series H	$65B	$965B	reuters.com
May 7, 2026	Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation in Meituan-led round About $2B at a $20B valuation in a round led by Meituan's Long-Z Investments, with Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile and CPE Yuanfeng (Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SCMP).	Funding	Round led by Meituan (Long-Z)	$2B	$20B	bloomberg.com
Apr 3, 2026	Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio in ~$400M stock deal Stock deal reported at about $400M; team joins Anthropic's healthcare and life-sciences group.	Acquisition	acquires Coefficient Bio	$400M	—	techcrunch.com
Mar 31, 2026	OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation Round closed with $122B in committed capital; anchored by Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank.	Funding	Round anchored by Amazon, NVIDIA & SoftBank	$122B	$852B	openai.com
Mar 19, 2026	OpenAI to acquire Astral (uv, Ruff) for Codex Maker of the Python tools uv, Ruff and ty; team joins Codex and OpenAI plans to keep supporting the open-source tools. Subject to regulatory approval.	Acquisition	to acquire Astral	—	—	openai.com
Mar 11, 2026	Google completes $32B Wiz acquisition, its largest ever All-cash deal announced March 2025 closes after US (Nov 2025) and unconditional EU (Feb 10, 2026) clearance; Wiz joins Google Cloud and keeps its brand and multicloud support.	Acquisition	acquires Wiz	$32B	—	blog.google
Mar 9, 2026	OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo (AI security testing) Open-source framework for testing and red-teaming LLM applications; subject to closing conditions.	Acquisition	to acquire Promptfoo	—	—	openai.com
Feb 25, 2026	Anthropic acquires Vercept to boost Claude’s computer use Team of co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs and Ross Girshick joins; Vercept's external product is wound down.	Acquisition	acquires Vercept	—	—	anthropic.com