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[funding]Aug 11, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

River AI raises $1.1B to rebuild AI from scratch with personally trainable agents

The xAI co-founder's 2-month-old startup lands a massive seed round to reinvent model training, promising agents that are truly yours.

[funding]Aug 4, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, seeks $100M for computer-use agents

The startup, founded by Ritankar Das, claims its smaller model outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks for automating office workflows.

[funding]Jul 13, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

Nous Research Nears New Funding at $1.5B Valuation as Open-Source Agent Hermes Gains Traction

The startup behind the popular open-source Hermes AI agent is raising at least $75 million at a nearly triple the valuation of its Series A just three months ago.