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Cognition is in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation, Bloomberg says

TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, reported early talks for more than $1 billion less than three months after a $1 billion round at $26 billion. Cognition declined to comment. The round may not happen.

Scott Wu portrait from TechCrunch’s Cognition funding story

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River AI raises $1.1 billion two months after leaving stealth

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s company announced a combined seed and Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. No valuation was disclosed.

Official Series A image from River AI’s funding post