AI Capital Floods Startups: Higgsfield's $5.4B Valuation, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter Deal, and Groq's $350M Pivot

Goldman Sachs and Intel just poured $400 million into AI video startup Higgsfield, valuing the two-year-old company at $5.4 billion—a fourfold jump since January. The round, which also includes DST Global and Liberty Global, is a clear signal that investors are betting big on AI-generated video moving beyond social media and into enterprise marketing and production. Higgsfield’s annualized revenue has surged from $20 million a year ago to $700 million this month, with...