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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major…
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Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai left the company to pursue visual AI and founded Elorian. Within months of his departure, he secured a $55 million seed round that valued the startup at $300 million, a valuation-to-capital ratio described as more aggressive than that of Thinking Machines. The fundraising episode was discussed on the Build Mode podcast, where host Isabelle Johannessen interviewed Dai about the rapid capital raise and his plans for Elorian.
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