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Hugging Face

Amount: $235M 🎉

Round: Series D

Investors: Salesforce Ventures, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, and Sound Ventures

Hugging Face’s mission is to build the future of open-source AI by providing a platform for collaboration on models, datasets, and applications.

Their product includes a hub for AI code repositories, models, and datasets, as well as web apps to demo AI-powered applications. Check out their ecosystem 👇

Modular

Amount: $100M 🎉

Round: Series A

Investors: General Catalyst, GV (Google Ventures), SV Angel, Greylock and Factory

Modular’s mission is to remove the complexity of building and maintaining AI systems at a large scale.

Their product includes an engine that tries to improve the performance of AI models on CPUs and GPUs while delivering cost savings.

Ikigai Labs

Amount: $24.75M 🎉

Round: Series A

Investors: Premji Invest, Foundation Capital and e& capital

Ikigai’s mission is to empower every enterprise with AI. Branded as “Generative AI for tabular data”.

Their product is a no-code platform built on top of proprietary graphical models for prediction, sparse data reconciliation, and optimization. Their end users are businesses and organizations looking to use data to solve problems and improve their operations.

Irreverent Labs

Amount: Undisclosed 🎉

Round: Series B

Investors: Samsung Next

Irreverent Labs’ mission is to develop a 3D & video foundational model and API that creators, game studios, and developers can use to generate content.

Their product is an AI model that can generate 3D content, and video from prompts in natural language, images, or brief video snippets. Their end users are creators, game studios, and developers looking to generate content using AI.

Aily Labs

Amount: $20.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Investors: Insight Partners

Aily Labs’ mission is to transform business needs into applied AI use cases, embedding them into easy-to-integrate and simple-to-use apps.

Their product is a mobile-first AI decision intelligence app that revolutionizes the way performance is tracked and commercial decisions are made within a global business.

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