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[AINews] New AI Infra decacorns: Fireworks, Baseten (with OpenRouter on the way)

Several AI infrastructure companies are reportedly nearing or have achieved decacorn status, indicating significant investor confidence in the sector. Fireworks is in talks for a $15 billion round, while Baseten is raising at an $11 billion valuation. OpenRouter has also secured a $113 million Series C funding round. These developments highlight a trend towards massive valuations in companies supporting AI model inference and development. AI

IMPACT Confirms massive investor appetite for AI inference and infrastructure, potentially accelerating development and competition.

• Anthropic
• OpenAI
• Claude Mythos
• GPT-5.5
• Claude Opus 4.6
• DeepSeek
• OpenRouter
• Latent Space
• Baseten
• Fireworks
• Qwen3.7 Max
• Gemini Managed Agents