Tokyo-based Sakana AI raised a ~$135M Series B from MUFG, Khosla, Macquarie, NEA, Lux, and others at a ~$2.6B valuation, becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn
At present, we are seeing a record amount of capital pouring … eWeek : Sakana AI Becomes Japan's Most Valuable Unicorn Maija Palmer / Global Corporate Venturing : ‘Big in Japan’ is not enough — where ...
The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more
- Supercomputers to help harness fusion energy, treat cancer — Lux supercomputer to come online in six months
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating
(Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. has joined a $100 million-plus funding round for Tokyo startup Sakana AI, one of the larger investments …
Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux
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Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux
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Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for “any robot or physical device”, raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, and more
Physical Intelligence (Pi, π, @physical_int). We're focused on bringing the amazing recent breakthroughs of AI and foundation models into the physical world. Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : It's a two s...
TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week … Threads: @firstadopter . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @mjburnsy , @rez...
A look at Google Research spinout Osmo, which has raised $60M led by Lux Capital and GV to use AI to create aroma molecules for perfumes, shampoos, and more
Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases. Tweets: @wolfejosh , @wolfejosh , and @w...
OpenStore, an e-commerce roll-up company for Shopify merchants, raised $32M led by Lux at a $970M valuation, up 25% from November 2021 when it raised $75M
Many of the e-commerce roll-up companies, also known as aggregators, slowed down this year after a record 2021. Tweets: @christinemhall Tweets: Christine Hall / @christinemhall : While aggregators thi...
Benchling, which provides cloud-based software to manage biotech R&D, raises $200M led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities at $4B valuation, 5x its value in May
epic institutions in life sciences & crypto. https://twitter.com/... Jude Gomila / @judegomila : Well done to @sajithw and co for hitting $4bn valuation for @benchling with a $200 million led by Sequo...