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$4.5B Weekly Run Rate: AI Infrastructure, DefenseTech & Series A Recovery
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AI infrastructure funding hits a $4.5B weekly baseline as Groq reaches $2.4B total, defensetech surges 60%, and Series A growth signals capital moving earlier in the stack. Essential market intelligence for founders, investors, and operators tracking where the money is flowing right now.
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Four point five billion dollars in a single week. That's not a record-breaking outlier.
The clearest signal in this cycle is Groq. The company's LPU-based AI inference platform has now reached two point four billion dollars in total funding.
Away from raw compute, two deals illustrate a second theme running through this cycle. Peregrine Technologies has reached five hundred million dollars in total funding.
Zoom out to the macro picture and two structural shifts are worth separating. Series A funding grew twenty-eight percent in Q1 twenty twenty-six over the twenty twenty-five quarterly average.
The exit data sharpens the picture further. Total exit value reached eight hundred billion dollars in twenty twenty-five, up one hundred sixty-four percent year over year.
The signal here isn't that AI is hot. That's already priced in everywhere.
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