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The week in Startups and VC
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Capital moved from AI materials and inference hardware to large-scale industrial automation, with separate bets spanning semiconductor discovery, chips, and robots for heavy industry and solar plants.
Across two days, investors funded both the software layer for AI-agent transactions and the banking and stablecoin rails behind broader digital payments. The commitments ranged from Natural and Cyclops to Ant International and Augustus, showing the stack expanding from agent actions to institutional cross-border infrastructure.
DeepSeek's financing story recurred on successive days, first as a reported pause after viral posts and then as a reported suspension ahead of an IPO.
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