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Aug 11, 2026 · The River AI team

River AI raises $1.1B in funding across Series Seed and Series A

Today we're announcing $1.1 billion in funding across our Series Seed and Series A, led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures. The round accelerates our mission to build powerful personal AI that knows you and works for you…

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Jun 10, 2026 · Igor Babuschkin

Introducing River AI

I've spent the past decade building AI at DeepMind, OpenAI, and xAI, scaling up deep learning and RL. The takeoff of AI progress happened faster than I expected. Soon AI will be capable of most of the economically valuable work that people do…

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