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xAI

Amount: $135M 🎉

Round: Pre-Seed

Lead Investor: N/a

xAI is developing Grok, an AI bot designed to answer questions with a "rebellious streak," different from other AI bots like ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude.

Elon Musk, the founder, is seeking to raise $1 billion in this round which suggests the round is not completed yet. Stay tuned for further updates.

Liquid AI

Amount: $37.6M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: OSS Capital L.P., Stephen Pagliuca, The Pags Group

Liquid AI aims to develop general-purpose AI systems using a new type of AI model called a liquid neural network, focusing on flexibility and adaptability​​​.

The company's liquid neural network models require fewer parameters and neurons, leading to less computational cost. These models can adapt over time, processing sequences of data dynamically, and are suitable for tasks like autonomous driving, text generation, and more.

Leonardo AI

Amount: $31M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Smash Capital, TIRTA Ventures, Gaorong Capital, and Samsung Next​

Leonardo AI’s mission is to empower users in creative industries with AI-driven art creation tools.

They offer a platform for generating AI art, targeting users in industries like gaming, advertising, fashion, and architecture. Users can save, edit, and build multiple assets in the same style, and also build and train their own models for image generation. The platform is distinguished by its Live Canvas feature, which combines text and sketch prompts to create photorealistic images in real-time.

Respell

Amount: $4.7M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Craft Ventures

Respell offers a platform where users can build or use prebuilt “spells” (workflows) to automate tasks.

The platform is designed to be agnostic to the underlying large language models (LLMs) but currently works mostly with GPT-4. It provides an AI-first workflow builder and an agent-based chat experience that suggests and creates new automation, with the capability to integrate into an organization's systems. The platform is cross-functional, enabling various teams such as sales, data, and operations to automate tasks and centralize data.

Other Rounds 🤏

Pachama raises a $9M Series B Extension - an AI-powered marketplace for nature carbon removal credits.

Rightbot raises a $6.25M Seed - a warehouse automation and AI-driven robotics platform.

BurnerPage raises a $2.8M Pre-Seed - an AI/ML platform that automatically optimizes web page conversion performance.

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