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P-1 AI launched publicly with a $23 million seed funding round led by Radical Ventures to develop AI capable of cognitive automation for physical…
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P-1 AI launched publicly with a $23 million seed funding round led by Radical Ventures to develop AI capable of cognitive automation for physical…
Avicena, a privately held startup based in Sunnyvale, California, announced a collaboration with TSMC to optimize photodetector (PD) arrays for its LightBundle microLED-based optical…
Exowatt, a Miami-based renewable energy startup, has raised $70 million in Series A funding to accelerate the deployment of its modular solar thermal power…
Auradine, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, has secured $153 million in Series C funding to expand its blockchain and AI infrastructure product…
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Aalo Atomics has revealed the first non-nuclear prototype of its Aalo-1 reactor and completed construction of a new 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.…
Semiconductor startup Retym has officially launched from stealth mode with over $180 million in total funding, including a newly secured $75 million Series D…
Rain Tree Photonics (RTP) has launched its 200G/lane photonic integrated circuit (PIC) product family, targeting optical interconnects for AI clusters and hyperscale data centers.…
RAM Photonics Industrial has announced the launch of its Medusa Array product family, a scalable 2D fiber array designed for next-generation optical interconnects. Manufactured…
Taara, formerly a project within Alphabet’s X lab, announced today that it has officially spun out as an independent company. In a blog post…
Celestial AI announced it secured $250 million in Series C1 funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, increasing its total funding to over…
Quantum Machines (QM) has raised $170 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $280 million. Led by PSG Equity,…
Baya Systems and Semidynamics have announced a collaboration to accelerate the development of RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms optimized for AI, machine learning (ML), and…
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