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Flapping Airplanes, an AI lab founded one year ago, has announced the completion of a $1 billion Series A funding round, co-led by Index and Lux, with a reported valuation of $6 billion. According to reports, this comes just nine months after its $180 million seed round at a $150 million valuation, quadrupling its valuation. The founding team says its megakernel framework can handle training, inference, and running games within a single kernel, with the goal of enabling models to complete training with less data. The funding news is currently reported by TechCrunch AI, with no further developments yet.
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One-year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation
One-year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes announced it has raised a $1 billion Series A co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. This comes just nine months after its $180 million seed round at a $150 million valuation, quadrupling its valuation. The founding team says its megakernel framework can complete training, inference, and game running in a single kernel, with the goal of enabling models to complete training with less data.