| Mobile Web

Search results for Sequoia Capital

AI & Enterprise

Corma raises $60 million seed funding for defensive cybersecurity AI model

Israeli cybersecurity AI startup Corma said on Aug. 10 it raised $60 million in seed funding to develop defensive cybersecurity AI. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue. Corma plans to use the funds to expand multidisciplinary teams, invest in pre-training, post-training and cybersecurity research, and scale AI defense personnel for enterprise customers. The company is building a cybersecurity foundation model focused on defense.

AI & Enterprise

U.S. open-weight AI startups emerge, but checking China is unclear

As Chinese AI companies shake the global market with low-cost open-weight models that users can download and modify, U.S. startups are also emerging with open-weight offerings. The Wall Street Journal named Arcee, Reflection AI, Poolside and Thinking Machine Lab as drawing attention. Demand is rising in the United States for domestic open-weight models amid geopolitical concerns, but fundraising remains difficult and performance against leading Chinese models is still uncertain.

AI & Enterprise

Sutskever\'s SSI signs long-term partnership with Nvidia, expands research with Vera Rubin

AI research lab SSI, founded by Ilya Sutskever, has signed a long-term partnership with Nvidia that provides access to the next-generation GPU platform Vera Rubin, TechCrunch reported. The agreement also includes an undisclosed investment, and Nvidia’s investment in SSI is reported to be in the billions of dollars. SSI said the deal will expand its computing resources and support its private research.