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December 9, 2025 - Deals
Unconventional AI Secures $475 Million Seed Funding At $4.5 Billion Valuation
Unconventional AI, a two-month-old artificial intelligence hardware startup founded by Naveen Rao, has raised $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Lux Capital, DCVC, Databricks, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The company is developing a “novel, more energy-efficient computer for artificial intelligence applications,” aiming to rethink the foundations of computing to achieve brain-scale efficiency without biological limitations. Rao plans to raise additional capital in a tranched approach, with this initial funding representing the first portion of a potential $1 billion round.
FOUNDER: Naveen Rao
INVESTORS: Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, DCVC, Databricks & Jeff Bezos
ROUND: Seed
AMOUNT: $475,000,000
VALUATION: $4,500,000,000
HQ: #SanFranciscoBayArea
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Anthropic Secures $10 Billion Contract With Volta Infra Holdings For AI Infrastructure ExpansionAnthropic is expanding its AI infrastructure footprint with a $10 billion, six-year contract with Nvidia-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings, following a separate $200 billion five-year Google Cloud computing commitment. The deal will provide compute capacity from a renewable-powered data center in Norway using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, as Anthropic scales its broader infrastructure strategy involving hundreds of billions of dollars in commitments across cloud and data center partners.
FOUNDERS: Dario Amodei & Daniela Amodei
AMOUNT: $10,000,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
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