Anthropic signed an exclusive deal for all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. The company also expressed interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute partnerships. At the "Code with Claude" conference, Anthropic unveiled "dreaming," outcomes tracking, and multi-agent orchestration for Claude Managed Agents — plus doubled Claude Code limits for Pro/Max. PwC is rolling out Claude Code to hundreds of thousands of professionals globally.
AI venture funding hit $255.5B in Q1 2026 alone — already exceeding the $254.4B deployed throughout all of 2025. Horizontal AI platforms captured $197B across 396 deals, driven by mega-rounds. The IPO pipeline is historic: SpaceX targeting June 12 at $1.75T (largest in history), Anthropic targeting $900B in October, and OpenAI eyeing Q4 2026. Combined, these three could dwarf the $28.4B already raised in US IPOs YTD.
Richard Socher (former Salesforce chief scientist) launched Recursive Superintelligence with $650M funding. Co-founders include ex-Meta FAIR director Yuandong Tian, ex-DeepMind's Tim Rocktaschel, and Vision Transformer author Alexey Dosovitskiy. The core thesis: AI that autonomously identifies its own limitations and redesigns its architecture without human involvement.
A remarkable 12-day barrage from Chinese labs — four models at roughly equivalent agentic capability at meaningfully lower inference cost:
Cohere (Canada) and Aleph Alpha (Germany) merged at a $20B valuation, backed by $600M from Schwarz Group (European retail giant). The strategic goal: provide data-sovereign AI for European governments and enterprises as EU regulations tighten — an alternative to US hyperscalers.