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A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out.
Also, Upwind's $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.
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30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.
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Once Upon A Farm food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.
Also, By Rotation, one of the UK’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.
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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’
Also, designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.
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This is the El Segundo, California-based startup's second raise in less than a year.
Also, Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising massive funds at multi-billion valuations out of the gate.
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Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale.
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PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes. Now, its planning for an "aggressive rollout" this summer.
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Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.
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OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.
Also, Anduril announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.
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General Fusion's merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors.
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Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.
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Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.
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PraxisPro, founded by a former pharma sales rep, offers small language model AI training specifically designed for medical product sales.
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Another raises a $2.5 million seed round led by Anthemis FIL and Westbound to help retailers with off-channel inventory.
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Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation.
Also, Grubhub's acquisition of Claim will give restaurants access to Claim’s customer acquisition and retention tools, while Grubhub diners can receive rewards.
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Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.
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Higgsfield says its on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares.
Also, Symbolic.ai claims its AI platform can help optimize editorial processes and research.
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Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.
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Transition Metal Solutions is applying a special cocktail to coax microbes into unlocking more copper from ore.
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The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers.
Also, Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.
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