The former tech wunderkind has poured billions into his quest to make technologically superior AR glasses and best nemesis Zuckerberg's Meta.

AI insurance outfit Corgi has been on a nonstop funding spree since May — even as it deals with controversies and feuds.

Nominations for the annual list will be accepted through October 2.

Just 15 months after it founding, Applied Compute is raising $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation, nearly double its worth from four months ago.

Even before a massive shakeup in leadership at Google’s frontier AI lab, the org had faced quiet tensions between its offices across the Atlantic.

The data efficiency startup is researching a better way to train AI models using less data.

The Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 list highlights venture-backed companies likely to become unicorns. Learn more about these fast-growing startups.

AI Startup Corgi Fundraises Yet Again, At $4 Billion Valuation

If the round closes as expected later this month, the startup’s three 23-year-old cofounders would be worth an estimated $4.3 billion apiece.

How YouTube’s CEO Is Trying To Combat AI Slop

In an interview hours before the U.S. government issued a directive to disable Anthropic’s newest AI model, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer told Forbes about the tradeoffs of releasing such a p...

Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company is expected to acquire the buzzy AI coding startup shortly after it goes public.

Welcome to the frenzied world of AI, where a two-year-old startup founded by a 26-year-old can have a company-owned dog, run a 24-hour cafe and raise $106 million about a month after becoming a unicor...

How Scale AI Is Adapting Post Meta Deal And Founder’s Departure

The next-gen chipmaker first filed for its IPO in September 2024. Now, after snags that held up its debut, it’s a public company.

Named after the company-owned dog, Corgi embodies the sometimes-absurd San Francisco startup scene. And it just raised $160 million at a $1.3 billion valuation.

OpenAI is one of the former crypto miner’s largest contracted customers. Here are the risks and how CoreWeave is thinking about them.

The search giant had previously created a machine learning data set out of food scraps from its kitchens. Now it’s partnering with Mill, which makes a high-tech trash bin, to use that data to train it...

Matt Garman, who rose from intern to Amazon Web Services boss, also hopes the company’s recent deal with OpenAI will help improve the e-commerce giant’s Trainium chips.

For the 12th annual Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we’re on the hunt for 25 fast-growing companies most likely to become unicorns — and thrive well beyond that.

One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch’s $9 billion unicorn Vercel.

The Christmas Eve agreement—billed as Nvidia’s biggest deal in its three-decade history—landed at a precarious moment for Groq. Now Nvidia is betting on Groq’s inference-speed tech inside a newly anno...

Amjad Masad’s Replit allows users to work together like they’re doodling on a white board. It also made him a billionaire along the way.

Across two wide-ranging interviews with Forbes, Altman covered more ground than could fit in our profile. Here are his remarks on everything from vaccine research to critics who argue he backs compani...

Claude Code Is Anthropic’s Gateway Drug To The Enterprise

The Stockholm-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to code apps and websites for its users is in talks to raise a new round at triple its last valuation from just four months ago.

Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor had leadership roles at the world's biggest tech companies. Now they’re in the startup trenches, using AI agents to help companies interact with their customers.

With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires since Mark Zuckerberg’s debut at age 23.

Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.

Chips aren’t the only star of the massive agreement. AMD’s software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.

With a client list that includes Nvidia, Anthropic and Uber, the $6 billion-valued Grafana Labs is flexing with $400 million in annualized revenue — and new investment from a tender offer of up to $15...

U.S. law requires a ban of CapCut, Gauth, Lemon8, Coze, and many other ByteDance- owned apps, unless they are sold in the TikTok deal that President Trump announced today.

Hiring foreign workers just got more expensive for American tech companies. But that’s opened up new recruiting opportunities for non-U.S. AI startups.

After announcing a billion-dollar fundraise last week, the $100 billion AI data storage and analytics company is barreling ahead with new investments and plans for an eventual IPO. “It’s not an if, it...

Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have become some of the most watched political content on YouTube in 2025.

Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.

The tenth annual Forbes Cloud 100 list ranks the top private cloud computing companies — this year dominated by AI.

As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.

The AI juggernaut is working with Founders Fund-backed startup Binti in its first foray into government social work.

For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.

In a scathing editorial, the CCP reiterated that it will not let TikTok’s parent company sell its signature algorithm. What would a TikTok without that algorithm be?

A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it w...

At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

When OpenAI released its new flagship GPT-5, it said it would discontinue its older 4o model, popular for its warm writing style. Devoted users were devastated before OpenAI quickly reversed course.