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Cohere secures $500M at $6.8B valuation; AI2 receives $152M in grants

Cohere has secured $500 million in funding at a $6.8 billion valuation, signaling significant investment in the open-source AI model space. Additionally, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) received grants totaling $152 million from the National Science Foundation and NVIDIA. These financial injections highlight continued strong support for Western-based AI research and development initiatives. AI

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RANK_REASON Significant funding round for a major AI lab (Cohere) and substantial grants for another (AI2).

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  1. Smol AINews TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) ·

    Western Open Models get Funding: Cohere $500m @ 6.8B, AI2 gets $152m NSF+NVIDIA grants

    **OpenAI's GPT-5** achieved a speedrun of Pokemon Red 3x faster than **o3**. **Perplexity** raised **$200M** at a **$20B valuation**. **AI2** secured **$75M NSF grants** and **$77M from NVIDIA** for AI infrastructure projects like Olmo and Molmo. **Cohere** raised **$500M** and h…