📋 Quick Takeaways

• Humans& raises $480M seed round at $4.5B valuation—one of the largest seed rounds ever for human-centric AI startup founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, Google researchers
• OpenAI reportedly evaluating Pinterest acquisition to access 200 billion images for visual AI training and shopping integration
• Elon Musk predicts robotaxis “very widespread” in US by end of 2026; claims AI could surpass human intelligence this year
• Physical AI declared “next major wave” at Davos—executives predict 5-6x larger market than agentic AI within five years
• Micron’s HBM memory completely sold out through 2026 as AI chip demand continues explosive growth
• Prosus reveals 30,000 AI agents currently running; CEO predicts companies could be run entirely by agents in 5 years
• Yoshua Bengio warns current AI training approaches are problematic; calls next few years “critical” for regulation

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💰 Major AI Funding & Investments

Humans& Raises Historic $480M Seed Round at $4.5B Valuation

Landmark Investment: Human-centric AI startup Humans& has secured a staggering $480 million seed round, valuing the company at $4.48 billion—making it one of the largest seed rounds in venture capital history.

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