Last Week in AI recap: Anthropic’s $65B round, IPO filing, and Microsoft’s MAI push
Last Week in AI · rss · 2026-07-21
Episode recap
This Last Week in AI episode rounds up a dense week of AI news, led by Anthropic’s $65B Series H at a $965B valuation and its IPO filing.
Other major items covered
- Microsoft introduced the always-on Scout assistant plus new in-house MAI models.
- OpenAI launched new Codex tools and was discussed in the context of heavy infrastructure spending.
- Cognition reportedly raised $1B at a $25B pre-money valuation.
- MiniMax-M3 was highlighted for strong benchmark performance at a fraction of the cost of top models.
- The episode also touched on policy, security, synthetic media labeling, and several research papers.
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