OpenRouter is now part of Stripe. Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI. Together with OpenRouter, we’ll help businesses explore new models and optimize token routing and usage.

We raised our $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation from @benchmark, @generalcatalyst, @nvidia, @salesforce, and @zoom. @mercor scaled from $1M to $3B in run-rate revenue in 27 months, the fastest in history to $3B. For 2 years, we've organized human intelligence to build evals and training data for every frontier lab. The labs are the leading indicator for AI startups, then the Fortune 500. Our growth has accelerated over the past 6 months as enterprises start evaluating and training their own models. For many, owning their intelligence is existential.

Anthropic has launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering: Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

Today we’re announcing the largest expansion of ClickHouse since we launched ClickHouse Cloud, and we’re welcoming the @xata team to ClickHouse. ClickHouse now serves more than 5,000 customers, including DoorDash, Ramp, Meta, Tesla, Cisco, and Visa. What began as an open source analytical database is now a platform for the full set of data-intensive workloads behind modern applications. Launching today 🚀 ClickHouse Managed Postgres is generally available. ClickHouse Observability is in public beta. ClickHouse Security is in private preview. Langfuse AI Gateway is in public beta. And with the acquisition of Xata, the agent-native Postgres company, we’re accelerating instant branching, cloning, and scale-to-zero environments for developers and AI agents. Welcome, Xata! One open, composable foundation to build, observe, and secure applications. Read the full announcement:

Nominal just raised $240M at a $3B valuation. Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them. We started Nominal with a simple observation, that hardware teams needed better ways to work with test data and make decisions from it. Over the past four years, we’ve built software that understands the complex realities of hardware development. Now we’re building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Our Series C was led by @Lightspeedvp and co-led by @Insightpartners, with participation from Lux Capital, Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Avenir, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, M13, DE Shaw Ventures, Deployment Capital, Avra, Red Glass Ventures, Carpenter Capital, Audacious, PSP, Overmatch Ventures, XYZ, Haystack, and Brave Capital. Thank you to our customers, partners, team, and every hardware engineer building on Nominal. Read more here →

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges. They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.