Artificial Intelligence

Deepgram: $130 Million Series C At $1.3 Billion Valuation Raised And OfOne Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 13, 2026

Deepgram announced it raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to accelerate development of its real-time voice AI API platform and support new product and ecosystem initiatives, including an acquisition, expanded intellectual property efforts, and a new collaboration space in San Francisco.

OpenAI Acquires Torch In Reported $100 Million Equity Deal To Build Out ChatGPT Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 13, 2026

OpenAI has acquired Torch, a small health records startup, in a deal that was not publicly priced but is pegged at about $100 million in equity, according to a source cited by The Information. OpenAI confirmed the acquisition, while Torch said its four-person team will move over to OpenAI as part of the transaction—making the deal look less like a traditional buyout and more like a “acqui-hire.”

PulseAI: Seed Funding Secured To Advance AI-Driven ECG Diagnostics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

PulseAI announced it has closed a seed funding round to expand deployment of its AI-enabled electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnostics platform and progress toward U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance, positioning the company to commercialize clinical decision-support tools for both primary care and acute care environments.

insitro To Buy CombinAbleAI, Launching TherML Platform To Unify AI-Driven Therapeutic Design Across Modalities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

insitro announced it will acquire CombinAbleAI and, alongside the deal, has launched TherML (Therapeutic Machine Learning), a platform it describes as a single, modality-agnostic AI engine for drug discovery and design.

Hippocratic AI Consolidates Life Sciences Leadership With Grove AI Acquisition And Executive Appointments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Hippocratic AI announced it has acquired Grove AI and launched a dedicated Life Sciences Division, alongside leadership additions including a new president for the unit and a senior executive advisory council, as the company pushes to expand the use of patient-facing generative AI agents across biopharma and medtech workflows.

Google And Apple Sign Multi-Year Deal To Base Next-Gen Apple Foundation Models On Gemini

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Apple and Google announced they have entered into a multi-year collaboration that will see the next generation of Apple Foundation Models built on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology, positioning Gemini as a key backbone for future Apple Intelligence capabilities.

Hurricane Capital Acquires Kiyomi AI, Expanding Its AI-Driven Trading Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Hurricane Capital announced it has acquired Kiyomi AI, positioning the technology as a new portfolio-intelligence layer intended to deepen the firm’s AI-enabled institutional trading and execution workflows.

Allos: $5 Million Raised To Apply Causal AI Across Complex Drug Reformulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Allos AI has raised $5 million in seed financing to commercialize what it calls the industry’s first “glass-box” Causal AI platform for reformulating complex generic drugs, as developers and manufacturers look for lower-risk ways to improve how established medicines are delivered and tolerated over long-term use.

AZIO AI Lands $107 Million Southeast Asia Government GPU Order

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

AZIO AI announced it has received a binding purchase order for 256 Nvidia B300 GPUs, a milestone the company said advances completion of a major government procurement program in Southeast Asia and represents approximately $107 million in contractual revenue.

FIS Unveils Agentic Commerce Platform For Issuing Banks, Expanding AI-Driven Card Transactions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

FIS announced it has launched what it calls an industry-first offering designed to help banks support “agentic commerce,” enabling artificial intelligence agents to initiate and complete transactions safely across card networks while remaining within existing bank and network controls.

Row64: Interview With CEO Marc Stevens About Their Real-Time Visual Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Row64 provides a GPU- and CPU-accelerated, real-time visual intelligence platform that enables enterprises to explore and act on massive real-time data instantly. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Row64 CEO Marc Stevens about their visual business intelligence platform.

Walmart And Google Turn AI Discovery Into Effortless Shopping Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Walmart and Google announced they plan to launch a new shopping experience that brings Walmart and Sam’s Club product discovery directly into Google’s Gemini, aiming to make purchases more intuitive through conversational AI.

Cloudforce: $10 Million Series A Raised To Advance International Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Cloudforce, a Maryland-based AI company focused on regulated industries, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Owl Ventures, with strategic participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. The company said the investment deepens its go-to-market alignment with Microsoft, including access to Microsoft’s enterprise sales organization and product teams, as Cloudforce expands deployment of its nebulaONE platform.

OpenAI Hires Team From Convogo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

The team behind Convogo, a software platform built to help executive coaches and HR leaders streamline leadership assessments and feedback reporting, is joining OpenAI, according to a LinkedIn post from Convogo co-founder Matt Cooper.

Torq: $140 Million Series D At $1.2 Billion Valuation Raised For Agentic AI-Focused Security Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Torq, an agentic AI-focused security operations company, said it has raised $140 million in a Series D financing at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $332 million. The round was led by Merlin Ventures with participation from existing investors Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Ventures Partners and Greenfield Partners.

NVIDIA: Alison Wagonfeld Hired As Chief Marketing Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Alison Wagonfeld, a senior marketing leader at Google Cloud, announced she will leave Google in late January to join NVIDIA as chief marketing officer, where she will lead the company’s marketing and communications as it enters its “next phase of growth.”