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12 Aug 2026, 1:41 AM	TechCrunch	6.5	General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B in a seed/Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek participating. The company, which exited stealth in June 2026, already offers an API billed per million tokens that supports RL and LoRA fine-tuning on open models, positioning itself as an alternative to prompt engineering by letting developers train models they own rather than steer ones they don't. Why: If you're currently relying on prompt engineering against closed models, River's API offers a concrete alternative: fine-tune open models with RL and LoRA and serve them as endpoints you control. Temasek's participation signals sovereign-fund interest in AI infrastructure that could ripple into Southeast Asian deployment and partnerships. Evaluate whether per-million-token fine-tuning economics beat your current prompt-heavy workflow. ai-funding fine-tuning open-models ai-infrastructure temasek

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6.5

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B in a seed/Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek participating. The company, which exited stealth in June 2026, already offers an API billed per million tokens that supports RL and LoRA fine-tuning on open models, positioning itself as an alternative to prompt engineering by letting developers train models they own rather than steer ones they don't.

Why: If you're currently relying on prompt engineering against closed models, River's API offers a concrete alternative: fine-tune open models with RL and LoRA and serve them as endpoints you control. Temasek's participation signals sovereign-fund interest in AI infrastructure that could ripple into Southeast Asian deployment and partnerships. Evaluate whether per-million-token fine-tuning economics beat your current prompt-heavy workflow.