Flapping Airplanes pursues new round at reported $5 billion valuation

Index Ventures and Lux Capital are leading talks for a round in the hundreds of millions, six months after the AI research lab's $180 million seed.

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Primary source: Forbes

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The proposed round prices founder pedigree and a research thesis before commercialization. If it closes, Flapping Airplanes will have more time to experiment, along with a much higher burden to produce technical proof.

Illustration of Flapping Airplanes showing abstract flight models and streaming data to symbolize the AI lab's reported $5 billion fundraising effort.

Ben Spector, Asher Spector and Aidan Smith are discussing a new financing that would value their AI research lab, Flapping Airplanes, at $5 billion, Forbes reported on July 31st.…

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