The Daily Deal
Thursday 8 October 2026
OpenAI publishes 722 math papers from an unreleased model
- Chart of the day Bpifrance is the most active European public investor.
- Just raised IndusBridge Ventures $207M, Ledgebrook $200M, Matchpoint $150M.
- Just founded Melty, ScholarScope, Semblance Health.
- In the news OpenAI publishes 722 math papers from an unreleased frontier model, and two more stories.
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Since January 2021, Bpifrance has joined 817 VC rounds directly, putting in an estimated €3.2B of its own money and backing 17 unicorns. The chart ranks the ten most active European public investors, with each one's own investment, the total size of the rounds they joined and how much of it went to deep tech.
Just raised
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IndusBridge VenturesMumbai$207M Venture builder for cross-border deep technology ventures.
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LedgebrookBoston$200M Late VCAn InsurTech MGA on a mission is to bring Specialty insurance into the modern era. Led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management.
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MatchpointWatertown$150M Series BDesigning a new era of precision covalent medicines informed by breakthroughs in ultradeep chemoproteomics and machine learning. Backed by Nextech Invest and Norwest Venture Partners.
By country
- US$70B
- China$6.7B
- France$4.7B
- UK$3.6B
- India$1.3B
- Netherlands$1.2B
By sector
- Enterprise software$49B
- Health$9.7B
- Security$8.1B
- Energy$7.9B
- Transportation$6.9B
- Semiconductors$6.9B
$97B across 2,200 rounds in September, by headquarters and by sector.
Just founded
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MeltySan Francisco$125K raised
AI-powered platform for game modification and creation.
DMDavid Miller founded it after studying at Columbia University. -
AI-powered, eligibility-first scholarship search engine.
ASArman Singhal
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Semblance HealthAustin
Clinical workflow platform turning care-team requests into accountable commitments with evidence-backed closure.
BACCBJ Adesoji & Chris Collins founded it. Adesoji worked at IBM and Crest Agro Products Farms.
In the news
View all news stories- OpenAI publishes 722 math papers from an unreleased frontier model
OpenAI has released a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model, publishing them in a GitHub repository on October 6, 2026.
- Mistral's €3B-backed "Le Chonk" is a 1-trillion-parameter open model
- AI's progress may be stalling outside maths and code, researchers warn
AI researcher François Chollet has raised the possibility that AI gains are concentrated in maths and code, while progress elsewhere may be slowing.
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