River AI Raises $1.1B to Build Custom Agents and LLMs via API
Teknium · x · 2026-08-11
River AI announced it has raised $1.1 billion to build AI that is owned and shaped by each user.
Its first product is the River API, which allows anyone to build custom agents and LLMs based on open-weight models. The New York Times previously published an article detailing River AI's mission and next steps.
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