Mistral raises €3B Series D, led by Samsung
Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D led by Samsung Electronics, valuing it above €21 billion, as Luxembourg joins as a sovereign investor.
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Firebird opens an AI factory in Armenia
Firebird has launched a NVIDIA DSX AI factory in Armenia, with a roadmap for 70,000 GPUs, 300MW in the country, and a wider 2GW frontier-market infrastructure plan.
Microsoft bets billions on Europe AI compute
Microsoft is committing billions of dollars to Mistral's European AI infrastructure, turning the French model lab into a compute and sovereign-AI partner.
Sarvam Becomes India AI Unicorn With $234M Round
Sarvam has raised $234 million toward a $300 million Series B, giving India a sovereign AI champion valued at $1.5 billion.
Turkey lays out a $10B AI plan and 110,000 specialist target
Erdogan's 2026-2030 plan prioritizes data centers, public datasets, literacy and training as Turkey tries to build sovereign AI capacity.
Mistral seeks fresh capital for Europe’s sovereign AI race
Mistral is reported to be discussing a 3 billion euro funding round that could double its valuation and reinforce Europe’s sovereign AI story.
Runway moves European HQ to London, plans $200M UK investment by 2028
AI video startup Runway, backed by Nvidia, announced it will establish its European headquarters in London and invest over $200 million in the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028.
Cohere acquires biopharma AI startup Reliant
Cohere has quietly acquired Reliant AI, a Canadian-German biopharma AI company, expanding into the pharmaceutical vertical.
Cohere open-sources 218B model Command A+
Cohere has released its flagship Command A+ model under Apache 2.0, a 218B-parameter MoE architecture that runs on as few as two H100 GPUs, targeting sovereign AI and enterprise deployments.
HUMAIN and AWS Turn Saudi Sovereign AI Into an Enterprise Stack
HUMAIN ONE packages agent development, data governance and AWS infrastructure as Saudi Arabia's bid for enterprise AI sovereignty.
Britain Pitches a Middle-Power Route Around AI Compute Giants
Liz Kendall says the UK will not outspend the five companies controlling most AI compute, and instead wants leverage through chips, standards and sovereign AI alliances.