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Top 3 Things in Today’s Latestly AI Edition

• $35M for Nexos.ai: Nord Security founders raise funds to secure enterprise AI adoption and stop “shadow AI” leaks.​

• OpenAI unveils Sora 2: Next‑gen text‑to‑video model creates 60‑second cinematic clips.​

• NVIDIA‑Oracle expansion: GPUs to power Oracle’s global enterprise AI push.

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AI Story: Nexos.ai — $35M to Secure Enterprise AI Adoption

Founders: Tomas Okmanas & Eimantas Sabaliauskas

Nexos.ai builds software that helps companies use AI tools safely. Many employees upload private data into public models like ChatGPT, which creates security risks.

Nexos.ai prevents this by sitting between a company and the AI systems it uses, letting teams access different AI models while keeping sensitive data inside company walls.

Its platform gives one secure interface where employees can chat with and compare models like OpenAI or Anthropic, while IT teams manage permissions and monitor usage.

This makes AI adoption easier, safer, and fully compliant with data rules.

Funding Round:
Raised €30 million ($35 million) Series A led by Index Ventures and Evantic Capital, at a €300 million ($350M) valuation. Participating investors include Creandum, Dig Ventures, and angel backers from Klarna, Datadog, Supercell, and Wix.​

How It Works:

• Monitors and mediates interactions between enterprise employees and multiple AI tools

• Detects potential data leaks or regulatory risks in real-time

• Provides dashboards for C-suite analytics on AI usage across teams

• Integrates with Microsoft 365, Slack, and custom APIs

Focus: Secure orchestration and compliance for enterprise AI adoption across finance, healthcare, and software industries.

Lessons for Founders:

• Enterprise adoption isn’t only about capability; it’s fundamentally about trust and transparency.

• Solve the “fear gap” — enable usage while reducing risk.

• Security is the gateway to AI scale — winning trust early is the fastest market entry strategy.

Nexos.ai’s model reflects a broader 2025 trend: founders combining security and productivity to unlock the next wave of enterprise AI growth

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Global AI News Highlights (Oct 14 – Oct 21)

🇺🇸 US & Canada

• OpenAI launches Sora 2, a next-gen text-to-video model producing 60-second clips with cinematic quality.

• Google AI unveils a tool to map genetic cancer drivers, marking a major biomedical push.

• NVIDIA GPUs to power Oracle’s enterprise AI platform expansion announced Oct 14.

• Modular secures $250M Series B, maintaining lead in the US AI inference stack.

• Concerns rise in Silicon Valley over data center energy use tied to large AI compute growth.

🇪🇺 Europe

• Nexos.ai (Lithuania) raises €30M Series A to simplify enterprise AI orchestration.

• UK Government introduces blueprint for AI regulation, including real-world testing “sandboxes”.

• Resistant AI (Czech Republic) secures $25M Series B to expand AI-based fraud prevention.

• DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve demonstrates mathematical theorem discovery automation.

• Europe-wide conference on Responsible AI in Science drives cross-university collaborations.

🇨🇳 China

• Ant Group debuts a trillion-parameter reasoning AI, targeting enterprise logic tasks.

• Huawei presents early tests of agentic AI systems that act independently in workflow decisions.

• Baidu begins controlled integration of ERNIE Bot 5.0 in fintech and legal tech.

🇮🇳 India

• Infosys updates its AI Retail Suite to include predictive logistics planning.

• Kruti AI expands to support 15 Indian languages post-Independence Day integration.

• IIIT-Hyderabad launches a national fellowship for responsible generative AI research.

🌍 Africa

• Resonance Labs (Kenya) begins AI crop yield forecasting pilots for agritech cooperatives.

• Nigeria’s NairaMind secures $6M bridge round to enhance financial voice AI.

• Rwanda announces AI training partnership with Google under Africa Growth Challenge.

🌎 Latin America

• Ualá (Argentina) rolls out conversational finance bots in partnership with Anthropic.

• Chile’s AI tutors expand to include math reasoning models tested in 40,000 classrooms.

• Brazil’s Nubank begins using generative models for microloan scoring, cutting bias rates by 20%.

🇦🇺 Oceania

• Sydney-based Onyx AI raises $12M Seed for manufacturing optimization models.

• Canva officially launches its new AI design suite, debuting at EduTech Summit 2025.

• CSIRO opens a regional AI research cluster focused on climate-impact modeling.

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