Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation
Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded.
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- Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported.
- No commercial product has come out of the lab yet.
- Flapping Airplanes is trying to build AI models that [...]
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- [1]Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuationSiliconANGLE: AI · Oct 21, 10:18 PM
Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded.
Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported.
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