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The investment comes from backers including the Qatar Investment Authority as demand for chips beyond Nvidia soars and as Qatar aims to build out its AI infrastructure.
Also, To build and sell more of its autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), Apeiron Labs recently closed a $9.5 million Series A round led by Dyne Ventures, RA Capital Management Planetary Health and S2G Investments, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Assembly Ventures, Bay Bridge Ventures, and TFX Capital participated.
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Gradient's heat pumps fit in windows, minimizing installation times. Now, it is introducing software to make those units more intelligent.
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Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.
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Carbon Robotics' Large Plant Model will allow farmers to kill new types of weeds without having to retrain the machines.
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Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelator for students nationwide
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The startup is partnering with utilities to help homeowners determine the best upgrades to cut their energy use.
Also, Waymo is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion.
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The $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.
Also, Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud. Its angel investors are a who's who.
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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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Lol 😂🤣 I love this one.. RIP HQ Trivia I will miss you 😅😅