🚀Startup Raises $1B Series A, Valuation Hits $6B

Young founders just scored a $1B round for their AGI lab

A year-old startup has just raised a $1 billion Series A, pushing its valuation to $6 billion. This is a massive boost for a company that launched with a $180 million seed round just nine months ago. The company's founders, who include a former Thiel fellow, a Neuralink alum, and a pair of Stanford PhDs, are building what they call a 'megakernel framework' designed to train and run intelligent systems more efficiently. This framework can perform entire training runs, serve inference, and even play video games simultaneously, all while overlapping memory-bound inference with compute-bound training. The $1 billion influx will be used to hire more talent and accelerate their ambitious goal of creating models that are a million times more data efficient.