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 # AI Industry Landscape Briefing — March 2026
@@ -54,3 +57,19 @@ Multi-source synthesis of the current AI industry state. Key data points:
 - Daniel Gross → left SSI for Meta superintelligence team
 - John Schulman → left OpenAI for Thinking Machines Lab
 - 11+ Google executives → Microsoft in 2025
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- xAI reached ~$230B valuation with Grok 4/4.1 leading LMArena, 1M+ H100 GPUs, $20B Series E Jan 2026
+- Mistral reached $13.8B valuation, EUR 300M ARR targeting EUR 1B, building European sovereign compute
+- Google DeepMind released Gemini 3/3.1 family, 21% enterprise LLM spend, $175-185B capex 2026, Deep Think achieved gold-medal Olympiad results
+- Sierra (Bret Taylor) reached $10B+ valuation in agentic customer service
+- Databricks reached $134B valuation, $5B Series L, filed for IPO Q2 2026
+- 2025 total AI VC: $259-270B (52-61% of all global VC)
+- Feb 2026 AI funding: $189B (largest single month ever)
+- 75-79% of AI funding to US companies
+- Inference cost deflation ~10x/year
+- Chinese open-source (Qwen, DeepSeek) capturing 50-60% of new open-model adoption
+- 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver ROI (MIT Project NANDA)
+- Big 5 AI capex: $660-690B planned 2026
+- US deregulating AI, EU softening regulations