Venice AI
A sneak peek into what Venice has planned for the next quarter and beyond.
Venice AI
A sneak peek into what Venice has planned for the next quarter and beyond.
Venice AI
Venice.ai, a privacy-focused AI startup led by CEO Erik Voorhees and Seattle-based president and CTO Jesse Proudman, has raised $65 million in its first outside funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company offers a private alternative to mainstream AI services, saying it doesn't store users' prompts or responses.
Venice AI
SiliconANGLE reported on July 1, 2026 that Venice.ai raised $65 million in new funding at a $1 billion valuation. The piece identifies Venice as a privacy-focused, uncensored AI alternative to mainstream chatbots, founded in 2024 by Erik Voorhees (ShapeShift) and Jesse Proudman (former Blue Box Group/IBM), and notes th While the article is third-party rather than a Venice-issued statement, the funding directly affects provider capacity and ecosystem momentum for the Venice platform, which is central to the provider lane. The July 2026 timing keeps it well within the current-news window, and the explicit valuation/amount figures are c
Venice AI
Venice.ai’s official changelog lists a broad model rollout covering May 26 through July 27, 2026, with new text and image models available to all users. July additions include Claude Opus 5 and Claude Opus 5 Fast, Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.6 Flash, several GPT-5.6 variants, Aion 3.0, Grok 4.5, Qwen 3.6 27B FP The same changelog identifies model type, privacy mode, availability, and rollout date, including Anonymous, Private, and E2EE/TEE classifications. It also records recent image and video offerings such as Seedream V5 Pro, Krea 2 Turbo, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Luma Uni-1, and Luma Uni-1 Max, making it directly useful for tr
What they do
Venice provides privacy-first AI APIs for chat, image generation, audio, and related workloads, emphasizing no data retention and open-model access.
How they were founded
Venice launched on July 18, 2024 under Erik Voorhees around a user-sovereignty mission to provide more private and permissionless access to AI systems.
Models served
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