Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

AI startups Cohere, Aleph Alpha to merge with $600M in new funding

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to lead a funding round into the combined company by making a $600 …

AWS inks multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Meta

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally developed central processing units. According …

DeepSeek open-sources V4 large language model series

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises two LLMs on launch. There’s the flagship V4-Pro and a smaller model called V4-Flash that trades off some output …

Software artifact management startup Cloudsmith raises $72M

CLOUD By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured $72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the company’s previous raise last year. Cloudsmith stated in …

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 with advanced math, coding capabilities

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthropic PBC released its latest LLM. OpenAI is offering the model …

Omni raises $120M round for its AI analytics platform

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $120 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV …

Google Cloud inks AI infrastructure deal with Thinking Machines

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER4 MONTHS AGO

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued in the “single-digit billions.” Thinking Machines is an …

Google launches AI research agents powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER5 MONTHS AGO

Google LLC has released two artificial intelligence agents that can generate research reports about user-specified topics. The agents made their debut on Tuesday. Deep Research and Deep Research Max are the successors to an AI research tool that Google introduced in December. …

SpaceX partners with Cursor on AI training, floats potential $60B acquisition

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER5 MONTHS AGO

SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According to SpaceX, the partnership agreement gives it the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion by …

Octen raises $10M in seed funding to speed up AI agent search queries

AI By MARIA DEUTSCHER5 MONTHS AGO

Octen, a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence agents to search the web, launched today with $10 million in seed funding. Square Peg led the investment. It was joined by Singapore-based venture capital firm Argor and a group of AI researchers. …

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Maria Deutscher

Latest from Maria Deutscher

AI startups Cohere, Aleph Alpha to merge with $600M in new funding

AWS inks multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Meta

DeepSeek open-sources V4 large language model series

Software artifact management startup Cloudsmith raises $72M

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 with advanced math, coding capabilities

Omni raises $120M round for its AI analytics platform

Google Cloud inks AI infrastructure deal with Thinking Machines

Google launches AI research agents powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro

SpaceX partners with Cursor on AI training, floats potential $60B acquisition

Octen raises $10M in seed funding to speed up AI agent search queries

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