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Wall Street Journal
Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab “devoted to solving the data efficiency problem”, raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index, and others
Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from investors, the latest chapter in the AI race