Flapping Airplanes raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation just nine months after its seed round, signaling massive investor confidence in its approach to building AI without scraping the entire internet.
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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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