Frontline
05.20.26
05.20.26
Today's lineup
In this edition
- Creative ToolsHugging Face
Hugging Face ships Ettin Reranker family, targeting search and retrieval workloads
Series D · $235M
- DevToolsAnthropic
Anthropic hires Karpathy to lead pre-training as Claude Code pulls enterprise AI spend from OpenAI
Series G · $30B
- Health TechCommure
Commure hits $7B valuation on $70M raise, cementing ambient AI bet in hospital workflows
Growth · $200M
- PaymentsVisa
Visa builds trust layer for agentic commerce as AI assistants gain payment authority
IPO · $17.9B
- RoboticsLocus Robotics
Locus Robotics acquires Nexera to close the manipulation gap in warehouse automation
Series F · $117M