Venture Capital

SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

By Cade Metz Lauren Hirsch Mike Isaac and River Akira Davis

Andreessen Horowitz Anthropic AI LLC Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Computer Chips Computers and the Internet DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co Ltd Entrepreneurship Innovation Mobile Applications OpenAI Labs Start-ups Venture Capital

After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets

Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.

By Erin Griffith

Andreessen Horowitz Artificial Intelligence Benchmark Capital Start-ups Thrive Capital Venture Capital

Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $100 Million

The company’s Cursor product, which can autocomplete programming code, helped the start-up draw a $2.5 billion valuation.

By Michael J. de la Merced

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Wall St. Is Minting Easy Money From Risky Loans. What Could Go Wrong?

Everyone from Jamie Dimon to the International Monetary Fund is ringing alarms about the shadowy world of private credit. But the money keeps rolling in.

By Rob Copeland and Maureen Farrell

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