The year kicks off with massive rounds from OpenAI, Mistral, and Cohere totaling $8B+.
$7.9B
Total Raised
4
Deals
$2.0B
Avg Deal Size
#1
OpenAI
LLM / AGI Research
Series E
AI research and deployment company. Creator of GPT-4, ChatGPT, and DALL-E.
$6.6B
Val: $157.0B
Jan 20, 2026
#2
Mistral AI
LLM / Open Source
Series B
European AI lab building open-weight large language models for developers and enterprises.
$640M
Val: $6.0B
Jan 10, 2026
#3
Cohere
Enterprise AI
Series D
Enterprise AI platform providing language models for search, generation, and classification.
$450M
Val: $5.5B
Jan 25, 2026
#4
Replit
AI Developer Tools
Series C
AI-powered software development and deployment platform in the browser.
$200M
Val: $2.5B
Jan 5, 2026
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