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SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B, DeepSeek's $7.4B Round & Qualcomm Eyes Tenstorrent
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Startup funding and venture capital news: SpaceX closes its $60B Cursor acquisition, DeepSeek raises $7.4B from Tencent and CATL, and Qualcomm enters talks to buy AI chip startup Tenstorrent for up to $10B. Seven stories shaping the AI infrastructure race today.
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SpaceX just exercised its option to acquire Cursor for sixty billion dollars in stock, and that number deserves a moment of attention. Not because of its size alone, but because of what it signals about where the AI competition is actually heading.
The acquisition is only possible at this price because SpaceX's stock gave Musk the currency to do it. The company went public on June eleventh at a hundred and thirty-five dollars per share.
On the other side of this competition, China's DeepSeek just closed its first outside funding round at seven point four billion dollars. Backers include Tencent, CATL, and JD dot com.
Qualcomm is now in talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for somewhere between eight and ten billion dollars. Tenstorrent builds accelerators for data centers and edge AI.
Two cybersecurity rounds this week reflect a shift that's been building for months. Ent closed a hundred million dollar seed round from Decibel, Sequoia, and others, focused on real-time behavioral monitoring for both human users and AI agents on enterprise endpoints.
Two more rounds worth noting. Sarvam AI in Bengaluru closed a two hundred and thirty-four million dollar Series B first close at a one point five billion dollar valuation, led by HCLTech.
Pull back and the week's pattern is clear. Control of the developer workflow layer, compute infrastructure, and chip supply is becoming the real competition in AI.
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