Anthropic announced on January 8, 2026, that it has closed a new $2 billion funding round led by Amazon, pushing the company's post-money valuation above $20 billion. This latest infusion — Anthropic's largest single raise to date — will fuel aggressive scaling of Claude 4 family models, massive compute expansion (targeting 1M+ H200 clusters), global enterprise go-to-market acceleration, and continued safety research. The round comes just weeks after Claude 4 Opus set new SOTA marks across reasoning, coding, and long-context tasks, solidifying Anthropic's position as one of the three undisputed frontier labs alongside OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

On January 6, 2026, xAI announced the successful close of its upsized Series E funding round, raising a staggering $20 billion — far exceeding the initial $15 billion target. Backed by heavyweights including NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, and the Qatar Investment Authority, this capital injection propels xAI's valuation to approximately $230 billion. The funds will supercharge the world's largest GPU clusters (Colossus I & II now exceeding 1 million H100 equivalents) and fast-track Grok 5 development, as investor frenzy in frontier AI reaches fever pitch.

On December 26, 2025, SoftBank Group officially completed its promised $22.5 billion additional investment in OpenAI, fulfilling a March commitment for up to $40 billion total (including co-investors). This massive cash infusion — routed through Vision Fund 2 — elevates SoftBank's stake to approximately 11%, making it OpenAI's second-largest investor behind Microsoft. Amid soaring AI infrastructure costs and OpenAI's push toward AGI, this deal underscores Son's aggressive pivot, achieved through asset sales, loans against Arm shares, and ruthless portfolio pruning.

French AI powerhouse Mistral AI announced on September 9, 2025, the close of its massive €1.7 billion Series C round — the largest ever for a European AI company. Led by Dutch semiconductor giant ASML (€1.3 billion commitment for ~11% stake), with participation from Nvidia, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, and others, the deal catapults Mistral's post-money valuation to €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion). This strategic alliance pairs frontier AI innovation with chipmaking expertise, signaling a bold push for European tech sovereignty amid U.S. dominance.

Legal AI powerhouse Harvey confirmed on December 4, 2025, a $160 million Series F round led by Andreessen Horowitz, catapulting its valuation to a staggering $8 billion — more than tripling from $3 billion in February. Founded just three years ago, Harvey has now raised over $760 million this year across three mega-rounds, fueled by explosive adoption (50+ AmLaw 100 firms as clients) and surpassing $100M ARR in August. With tools like Deep Research and Shared Spaces redefining legal workflows, this funding cements Harvey as the undisputed leader in a $1T market ripe for AI disruption.