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GCC & London based 1001 raises $30M Series A funding
Lux Capital's lead on 1001's $30 million Series A, with Sanabil and a roster of US operators joining, reflects a shift in where applied AI is now proven.
Odyssey banked Nvidia's money in February. Its $310m Series B locked the chipmaker out
The world models lab took NVentures cash for its Series A, then built a $310m round around Amazon's Trainium silicon and AMD Ventures, a signal of how hard the market is now hunting for alternatives to Nvidia.
Taste Labs emerges from stealth with $18.5m to sell judgment to an AI industry drowning in its own output
The New York company, co-led in its seed round by CRV and Amplify Partners, is betting that the dominant method for aligning AI models has been quietly manufacturing the sameness now derided as slop, and that curated taste is the infrastructure layer the industry forgot to build.