Render raises $100 million at $1.5 billion valuation

Render employees, including CEO Anurag Goel, center, gather at the startup’s headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. Render Venture capitalists are doubling down on Render, a startup offering easy-to-use cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday it said it has raised $100 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. The lucrative cloud computing world, dominated…

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents

Qwen3 is Alibaba’s latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with “advanced, dynamic reasoning.” Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Alibaba Group has released its newest AI model series, featuring enhanced capabilities, as it faces intensifying competition in China’s AI space with several models launched in the past week.  The…

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