Daily AI Grants Roundup – March 26, 2026

Harvey, an AI-driven legal tech startup, secured a $1 billion total funding to reach an $11B valuation, with Sequoia playing a significant role in multiple rounds.

Wellcome is a charitable foundation that funds global research in various scientific fields and advocates for evidence-based health policies.

Conntour secures $7M funding to develop an AI search engine for security video systems amid ongoing debates on surveillance ethics.

Manus, a Chinese AI startup, relocated to Singapore and was acquired by Meta after gaining significant traction and valuation. This move reflects broader geopolitical tensions surrounding AI technology.

Dreamina Seedance 2. 0, an AI video generation model from ByteDance, is rolling out in CapCut’s editing platform initially in several Asian markets.

Cohere launched an open-source voice model named Transcribe for transcription tasks across 14 languages, claiming it outperforms competitors on certain benchmarks.

Sen. Mark Warner proposes taxing data centers to mitigate potential job losses from AI advancements, aiming to provide assistance to affected workers.

Mistral released Voxtral TTS, an open-source text-to-speech model supporting nine languages, aimed at enterprise use cases like customer support.

Deccan AI, an AI post-training data and evaluation service, raised $25M to support companies like Google DeepMind in refining their models.

Anthropic reports a skills gap in AI, with younger workers potentially facing more significant impacts as AI adoption grows rapidly across industries.

Google has introduced TurboQuant, an AI memory compression algorithm designed to reduce working memory without sacrificing performance, drawing parallels to the fictional Pied Piper from ‘Silicon Valley’.

First Lady Melania Trump unveiled a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI at her Fostering the Future Together summit, discussing its role in homeschooling children with technology.