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AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
Modal laboratoriesa startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure is talking to venture capital firms about a new round at a…
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A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money?
We are at a unique moment for AI companies building their own base model. First, there’s a whole generation of…
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Who’s behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun’s ‘world model’ startup
Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has attracted a lot of attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found…
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OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs
Just when you thought circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer…
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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against…
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Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs
Alan Dye, the design manager who led Apple’s user interface team for the past decade, is leaving the company to…
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Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons
While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the…
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Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney
It’s not just Google’s Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for…
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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is…
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Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs, a new startup from one of OpenAI’s most respected researchers, Liam Fedus, and his former Google Brain colleague,…
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