AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 18 June 2026 at 22:20 Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the βinference gold rush" marches on.
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 16:20 The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medalβs dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.