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Odaily News: Physical AI company SiMa.ai has announced the completion of a $150 million Series C funding round, co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with participation from Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Maverick Capital, Point72, StepStone Group, and others. AllianceBernstein, Baron Capital, JPMorgan Chase, and the State of Michigan joined as new investors. The company's cumulative funding has reached $500 million, with a valuation of $1.45 billion. It is reported that the funds will be used to accelerate the scaling of its Palette Neat agent software environment, and the company plans to launch a dedicated physical AI chip capable of achieving 1000 dense TOPS of computing power in the first half of 2028. (Businesswire)
According to Reuters, AI data center optical interconnect company iPronics announced the completion of a $125 million Series B financing round, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, and others, bringing the company's total funding to $177 million. iPronics primarily provides rack-mounted optical switching equipment for AI infrastructure. Through its programmable optical layer, it enables AI clusters to dynamically adjust network connections in real time according to training and inference workloads. The new capital will be used to scale operations and accelerate commercial deployment.
According to Reuters, chip design startup Velaura AI announced the completion of a $110 million Series A financing round, with a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion. This round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Capricorn Investment Group and existing investors Samsung Catalyst Fund, StepStone Group, and Maverick Silicon.