Jeff Bezos backs Thomas Reardon's Flourish in a $500 million neuro AI bet

Flourish is trying to build Cortex AI, a 50-watt brain-inspired system, but Wired reports the technical proof is still ahead.

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Flourish is one of the clearest counter-bets to brute-force AI scaling: a heavily funded founder team trying to turn neuroscience into lower-power, continuously learning models.

Illustration of a human brain woven with early electrical components representing Flourish's Cortex AI, backed by Jeff Bezos and Thomas Reardon.

Thomas Reardon and Rob Williams have assembled $500 million for Flourish, a New York neuro AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos), Lux Capital and Google Ventures, according to Wired, in a wager that the next AI leap will come from studying neurons rather than simply adding chips.…

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