Nous Research raises $90M for enterprise AI assistants

Nous Research has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to Axios’s October 7 funding roundup, with Robot Ventures leading and Nvidia, Microsoft’s M12, Samsung, Union Square Ventures, and 1789 Capital participating. The Austin lab’s business assistants now face the harder enterprise test: turning interest into paid deployments, support, and governance. To justify the valuation, adoption must show a repeatable edge over renting general models; Harvey’s open-weight workflow economics offer a useful comparison.