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Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round

Naveen Rao, the previous head of AI at Databricks, has raised $475 million in seed capital at a $4.5 billion valuation for his new startup, Unconventional AI.

The spherical was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC. The funding is a primary installment towards the aim of as much as $1 billion for the spherical, Rao told Bloomberg.

TechCrunch was first to report, again in October, that Unconventional AI was seeking this mega funding for Rao’s new startup, though the ultimate valuation is marginally decrease than the $5 billion sources instructed us he was searching for. If he does finally elevate as a lot as $1 billion, we’ll see how that impacts his firm’s worth.

Unconventional AI is ready on constructing a brand new, energy-efficient pc for AI. Rao beforehand wrote on X that his aim is to create a pc that’s “as environment friendly as biology.”

Databricks acquired Rao’s earlier startup, MosaicML in 2023, for $1.3 billion. Previous to MosaicML, Rao co-founded the machine studying platform Nervana Systems, which Intel Corp. acquired in 2016 for reportedly greater than $400 million. 

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