Fal doubles its valuation to $16B on $1.3B round
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
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Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
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On 10 February 2026 Runway announced a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly double its previous valuation, and said the money would fund pre-training of next-generation world models.
In February 2026 OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, led by Amazon's $50 billion — at the time the largest private technology fundraise in history — a round that later closed at $122 billion.
On 28 January 2026 StepFun announced a Series B+ funding round of more than 5 billion yuan, described as a record for China's AI model sector. Yin Qi became chairman, while Jiang Daxin remained CEO.
On 13 November 2025, Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, announced a $2.3 billion Series D at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation, saying it had crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue.
On 20 October 2025, LangChain announced a $125 million Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation, led by IVP, and released LangChain 1.0, LangGraph 1.0 and new LangSmith tools.
In June 2025 Perplexity closed a $500 million round at a $14 billion valuation, up from about $520 million in January 2024, as its annual recurring revenue grew from single-digit millions toward $200 million.
In February 2024 Alibaba led a US$1 billion funding round in Moonshot AI at a US$2.5 billion valuation, roughly eight times the startup's earlier valuation and, by reporting at the time, the largest single round for a Chinese AI startup.
On 24 August 2023 Hugging Face raised a $235 million Series D led by Salesforce Ventures, valuing the open-model hub at $4.5 billion, more than double its 2022 valuation, with chipmakers and cloud providers among the investors.
On 9 May 2022 Hugging Face announced a $100 million Series C round led by Lux Capital, valuing the company at $2 billion; the round was framed as building the GitHub of machine learning.