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🧠 The $800M “no” to Meta When a startup says no to nearly a billion dollars, you pay attention. South Korea–based FuriosaAI, which designs high-performance chips for artificial intelligence, just turned down an $800M acquisition offer from Meta. I

China is sprinting in semiconductors- set to hit 10.1M wafers per month in 2025, nearly a third of global capacity. Taiwan and South Korea trail with 5.8M and 5.4M. India? Just 0.1%. The gap is massive. But, India powers 20% of the world’s chip desi

Sequoia Cap— They have got 25% of the xAI project. Sequoia Capital's love affair with Elon Musk began in the PayPal days when legend Michael Moritz backed Musk's X.com. Over the years, their romance blossomed as Sequoia showered Musk's ventures wi

Top News of the day: 1. VCs Take Backseat as Indian Start-Ups Raise $5.3 Bn from Public Markets in FY25 2. Figma’s Dylan Field will cash out about $60M in IPO, with Index, Kleiner, Greylock, Sequoia all selling 3. 72% of US teens have used AI com

Masayoshi Son, the visionary behind SoftBank, is betting big on AI, predicting that by 2035, AI will be 10,000 times smarter than humans. His company owns 90% of chipmaker Arm and is aggressively investing in AI research, planning to deploy $500 bi

Top News of the day: 1. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has enhanced its V3 model with the V3-0324 update, improving programming capabilities and transitioning to the MIT open-source license. 2. Agritech startup Grow Indigo has raised $10 million from

Indian Defence Tech Startups- a thread: 🇮🇳 Why the US defence-tech ecosystem thrives, why India’s is still nascent, and what needs to change- fast. A sober look at capital, state support, AI’s role, exports, and national sovereignty. US defence-te