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Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation
Source: TechCrunch · Published
Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
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