U.K. self-driving startup Wayve raises $1B / Microsoft developing in-house LLM / U.S. claims most newly-funded AI startups [EN]

Wayve, a U.K. self-driving startup, raised $1.05B in Europe's largest AI funding round led by SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft, while Microsoft is developing a large language model, MAI-1, to compete with industry giants, and DocuSign acquires AI contract-management startup Lexion for $165M, as the Biden administration announces a $285M initiative for developing "digital twins" of semiconductors to boost chip manufacturing.