Cohere announced the initial close of a Series E round targeting up to CAD $7B (about US $5B) at a proposed CAD $35.7B valuation, led by Schwarz Group with the Canadian government and NVIDIA participating. The signal: AI sovereignty has moved from policy rhetoric to an actual equity-investment thesis — but a 'target announced' is not the same as 'cash banked.'
TypeSafe AI's non-text model Jev went viral after launching on September 15, with a third of Fortune 500 companies already using it. The company then closed an a16z-led $870M Series A at a $7.5B valuation. The signal: investors are starting to bet that "models built for machines, not people" could become a bigger infrastructure layer than LLMs.
Lecture 17 is Luke Zettlemoyer's multimodality guest session, but the site publishes no slides or agenda. Its official readings establish three routes: visual reasoning workspaces, early-fusion token models, and text autoregression with image diffusion.