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TypeSafe AI raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation to develop Jev, its non-text AI model. Andreessen Horowitz leads the round, with Sequoia and existing investor DCVC participating. TypeSafe says a third of Fortune 500 companies already use Jev, which produces probabilities it calls “calibrated decisions” rather than text. The company says the transformer-based model works faster and uses fewer tokens than large language models, making it suited to task automation.

Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

TypeSafe raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation to expand its Jev model lineup and develop enterprise features. Andreessen Horowitz leads the round, joined by Sequoia Capital, DCVC and unnamed angel investors; the company says Jev is already adopted by about a third of the Fortune 500. Jev returns structured answers, list selections or scores, and TypeSafe says it processes requests in under 700 milliseconds.

Oct 2026 · SiliconANGLENews article

California-based Oratomic raises $475 million, while UK-based Universal Quantum raises more than $100 million in Series A funding. Oratomic’s Series B, co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Bezos Expeditions, brings its total funding to $775 million and its valuation to $5.5 billion. Universal Quantum develops modular trapped-ion systems and plans to use its funding to advance commercialization and support expansion in Singapore, the United States and Japan.

Oct 2026 · SiliconANGLENews article

A British startup seeking to build a working quantum computer raises $100 million from investors, including Roblox’s CEO and a Singapore fund.

Oct 2026 · Bloomberg TechNews article