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OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company. Also, Anduril announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

General Fusion's merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PraxisPro, founded by a former pharma sales rep, offers small language model AI training specifically designed for medical product sales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another raises a $2.5 million seed round led by Anthemis FIL and Westbound to help retailers with off-channel inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation. Also, Grubhub's acquisition of Claim will give restaurants access to Claim’s customer acquisition and retention tools, while Grubhub diners can receive rewards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Higgsfield says its on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares. Also, Symbolic.ai claims its AI platform can help optimize editorial processes and research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transition Metal Solutions is applying a special cocktail to coax microbes into unlocking more copper from ore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers. Also, Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the company said. Also, Type One Energy has raised more than $160 million from investors to date. The new funding will help the company further refine its stellarator technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Austin-based marketplace offers imagery from more than 50 space-based imagery providers. Also, AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After five years of building an edtech company, Nathan Nwachuku, 22, realized that Africa was at a crossroads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company's plan kicked into high gear at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week as the company met with prospective partners to expand its reach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The two companies announced on Sunday plans to bring the on-demand drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get that silky-smooth nitro coffee at home without the wasteful cartridges with EverNitro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree. Plus, Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Several viral posts noticed that Artisan was banned. But the CEO tells us it wasn't for the reasons many thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months. Also, Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices