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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
July 16, 2026
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $300 million pre-seed round before launching a product, saying his new company is focused on visual AI. He argues visual AI is a major next frontier because his decade of work on influential AI systems included research that later informed ChatGPT.
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 frontiers in artificial intelligence.
Source: techcrunch.com