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AI Funding Tracker: Broadcom's $100B Plan Leads 14 Deals

Fourteen funding moves crossed the AI funding tracker this week, and the largest ticket was a $100 billion lease-back debt plan from Broadcom that would back Anthropic and other AI chip buyers, with Blackstone and Apollo as lead investors. The period mixed megadeals in compute infrastructure with record public-market raises and a wave of new equity stakes.

DateDealAmountRoundValuation
2026-08-21Broadcom AI chip financing: $100B debt plan for Anthropic$100B——
2026-08-21Brazil AI Supercomputer Investment Splits $444M Between Huawei and Nvidia$444M——
2026-08-24Nvidia Perplexity investment: the $30B bet turning a chipmaker into an AI power broker$30B——
2026-08-24Alibaba Share Placement: A Record $10.2B Raise to Fund AI$10.2B——
2026-08-24Starcloud's $250M round doubles its valuation, but orbital data center scale hinges on Starship$250M—$2.3B
2026-08-24XPeng Robotics Funding Round: Humanoid Unit Valued at $6.3B in Record Raise$6.3B—$6.3B
2026-08-24Castelion Series C Turns Missile Backlog Into $13B Valuation$1BSeries C$13B
2026-08-25Hugging Face Sale Talks Signal a New Prize in AI Infrastructure——$13B
2026-08-25SoftBank Retail Bond Sale Shifts OpenAI Bet to Savers$60B——
2026-08-25Palantir's Maven Program of Record Status Locks In $2.3B in Pentagon Funding$2.3B——
2026-08-27Anthropic Nscale compute deal: $7.5B a year before its IPO$7.5BIpo—
2026-08-27Instinct AI valuation jumps fivefold before public launch$250MSeries B$2.5B
2026-08-27Enflame STAR Market IPO Tests the Price of China's AI Push$892MIpo—
2026-08-27Stability AI Series B: Music, Gaming Giants Take Stakes$76MSeries B—

Patterns in this week's AI funding tracker

Debt and public-market financing carried the biggest tickets. Broadcom's $100 billion AI chip financing plan is a lease-back package, while SoftBank's record ¥1 trillion retail bond sale shifts the burden of its $60 billion OpenAI bet onto Japanese households as banks step back. Alibaba's HK$80 billion share placement funds AI after a 75% profit drop, with CEO Eddie Wu targeting payback within 2.5 years, and Enflame's STAR Market IPO opens subscriptions next week targeting 6 billion yuan, about $892 million.

Compute capacity remains the sector's biggest draw. Anthropic's $45 billion compute deal with Nscale commits $7.5 billion a year over six years for 460MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin capacity in West Virginia, signed a year before Anthropic's expected IPO. Brazil's $444 million AI supercomputer investment splits funds between Huawei's LLM project and an Nvidia supercomputer, testing data sovereignty goals. Starcloud's $250 million round doubles its valuation to $2.3 billion, though the 88,000-satellite orbital data center plan depends on Starship launches and Nvidia's Space-1 module.

Equity stakes formed the other cluster. Nvidia's $30 billion-plus investment in Perplexity lands as the search startup's revenue tops $750 million, and Stability AI's $76 million Series B brings Universal, Sony, Warner and EA in as shareholders, turning labels that fought AI training data use into equity owners. Hugging Face sale talks at a reported $13 billion would nearly triple its 2023 valuation. Earlier-stage rounds moved faster: Instinct AI's $250 million Series B lifted its valuation fivefold to $2.5 billion, and XPeng Robotics' $900 million-plus raise valued the humanoid unit at $6.3 billion, the largest single private financing in China's embodied AI sector.

Defense capital now prices like AI. Castelion's $1 billion Series C values the missile maker at $13 billion after a 37x step-up, and Palantir's Maven program of record status locks in $2.3 billion in Pentagon budget lines.

What to watch in the next AI funding tracker: Enflame opens IPO subscriptions next week, and the terms of Broadcom's $100 billion financing will shape how Anthropic funds its $45 billion compute commitment ahead of its IPO.

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