Agentic AI news, follow-the-money edition. Funding rounds for agent startups, deals that fell apart, and the numbers big companies share about their agents. Every figure comes from the linked report; we just did the reading.
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Funding
Infisical raised a $40 million Series B led by Elad Gil, at a $600 million valuation. Its pitch is to let AI agents into code, databases and the cloud without ever holding the passwords. The agent gets a fake key, and the real credential is attached somewhere it can't see.
Shopping
On Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said about 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up the Muse agent app. Shopping is the most common use, with an average purchase of over $200. Meta plans to make money by taking a small cut of sales made through the agent.
Funding
Manus's parent company Butterfly Effect raised more than $500 million in a round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent and HSG also in. It's the agent startup's first round since Chinese authorities forced Meta to call off its $2 billion acquisition. Manus did not disclose its valuation.
