Before 2020 the two were level. The gap is in newer companies: 7 of the 132 Thiel companies founded since 2020 have passed $100M, including Anthropic, Cognition and Mercor, against 8 of YC's 3,159.
Search & other brought in $63.4B of Alphabet's $127.6B Q3 2026 revenue, or 49.7%, down from 55.3% a year earlier as Google Cloud doubled to $30.7B. Source: Alphabet Q3 2026 results, via @Couch_Investor.
The US has received 72% of the world's AI compute delivered since 2022, versus 5% for the EU and 10% for China, according to a new estimate from research group Epoch AI.
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised more than $750 million for its AI Renaissance Fund and a related co-investment vehicle, surpassing its initial target, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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Before 2020 the two were level. The gap is in newer companies: 7 of the 132 Thiel companies founded since 2020 have passed $100M, including Anthropic, Cognition and Mercor, against 8 of YC's 3,159.
Search & other brought in $63.4B of Alphabet's $127.6B Q3 2026 revenue, or 49.7%, down from 55.3% a year earlier as Google Cloud doubled to $30.7B. Source: Alphabet Q3 2026 results, via @Couch_Investor.
The US has received 72% of the world's AI compute delivered since 2022, versus 5% for the EU and 10% for China, according to a new estimate from research group Epoch AI.
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised more than $750 million for its AI Renaissance Fund and a related co-investment vehicle, surpassing its initial target, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Every company, round and story, with its profile
Dealroom Premium members get the same edition, with each name linked to its profile on the platform.
Before 2020 the two were level. The gap is in newer companies: 7 of the 132 Thiel companies founded since 2020 have passed $100M, including Anthropic, Cognition and Mercor, against 8 of YC's 3,159.
Search & other brought in $63.4B of Alphabet's $127.6B Q3 2026 revenue, or 49.7%, down from 55.3% a year earlier as Google Cloud doubled to $30.7B. Source: Alphabet Q3 2026 results, via @Couch_Investor.
Monumental's autonomous robots laid every brick of a house in Almere, the Netherlands, marking a full build completed by machine rather than human bricklayers.
The Netherlands plans to cut about 25,000 full-time civil-service jobs by 2035 — roughly 15% of its central-government workforce — as it pushes to run a smaller government with more AI.
Every company, round and story, with its profile
Dealroom Premium members get the same edition, with each name linked to its profile on the platform.
Before 2020 the two were level. The gap is in newer companies: 7 of the 132 Thiel companies founded since 2020 have passed $100M, including Anthropic, Cognition and Mercor, against 8 of YC's 3,159.
Search & other brought in $63.4B of Alphabet's $127.6B Q3 2026 revenue, or 49.7%, down from 55.3% a year earlier as Google Cloud doubled to $30.7B. Source: Alphabet Q3 2026 results, via @Couch_Investor.
Artificial Analysis released version 5 of its Intelligence Index on October 27, 2026, and the overhaul sharply widened the gap between closed and open-weight AI models.
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LPWA
PMLukas Pukaj, Walé Abidakun & Praful Morar founded it. Pukaj worked at Nuvei and Wonga. Abidakun worked at PayPal.
IYIREM YILDIRIM founded it after working at Pikolinos.
PBPatrick Barendse founded it after working at Caribou Biosciences.
