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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

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TechCrunch reports that Andrew Dai, a former DeepMind researcher, raised three hundred million dollars in a pre-seed funding round before launching his product. With over a decade spent developing some of the world's most influential AI systems — including research that informed the development of ChatGPT — Dai is positioning visual AI as one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-r...

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