AI Coding Startup Lovable Raises $400 Million at $13.3 Billion Valuation
Swedish coding startup Lovable has raised funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, bringing in fresh capital to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Stronger-than-forecast US inflation would revive concern over higher interest rates.”
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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Swedish coding startup Lovable has raised funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, bringing in fresh capital to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.”
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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue grew a faster-than-projected 11%, keeping up the steady pace of expansion it needs to finance a costly AI services and infrastructure buildout.”

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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Super Micro Computer Inc. gave a revenue forecast for the current quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, a sign the booming artificial intelligence market continues to bolster sales of the company’s servers.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM — @-linked together with shared AI memory.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets”
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Excerpt from GitHub: “RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs”
Excerpt from GitHub: “The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work”
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