$2 billion at an $8 billion valuation—Reflection AI has secured one of the largest AI funding rounds in history, marking a 15x valuation increase in just seven months. The funding round, led by Nvidia and Lightspeed Venture Partners, positions the ex-DeepMind startup as America’s answer to both closed frontier labs and Chinese AI dominance.

This massive investment validates a critical infrastructure thesis: the next wave of enterprise AI deployment requires open, sovereign-controllable frontier models that enterprises can fully own and customize. As traditional closed labs maintain restrictive API access, Reflection AI is betting that the future belongs to organizations that control their own AI infrastructure stack.