{"id":1028221,"date":"2026-08-12T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028221"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:18:34","slug":"xai-cofounder-s-startup-river-ai-raises-1-1-billion-to-expand-custom-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/xai-cofounder-s-startup-river-ai-raises-1-1-billion-to-expand-custom-ai-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"XAI cofounder &#8216;s startup River AI raises $1.1 billion to expand custom AI tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startup River AI, founded by xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin, said on Tuesday it has raised $1.1 billion, looking to expand tools that help clients build personalized AI models on their own data. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cfundraise was \u2060led \u2060by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investment from Nvidia and AMD Ventures. Additional investors included Y Combinator and Temasek. <\/p>\n<p>River AI said it is betting that enterprise AI will shift from companies using general-purpose \u2060models from \u200clarge labs to customizing and owning their own models, using open-weight models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup River AI, founded by xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin, said on Tuesday it has raised $1.1 billion, looking to expand tools that help clients build personalized AI models on their own data. The \u200cfundraise was \u2060led \u2060by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investment from Nvidia and AMD Ventures. Additional investors included Y Combinator and Temasek. River AI said it is betting that enterprise AI will shift from companies using general-purpose \u2060models from \u200clarge labs to customizing and owning their own models, using open-weight models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028222,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028221\/revisions\/1028222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}