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Sooth Labs, an AI prediction laboratory founded by former Meta executives and a CMU professor team, is completing a $50 million funding round at a $335 million valuation, led by Felicis Ventures. Yann LeCun and Jeff Dean are participating as individual investors, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor. The company specializes in multimodal AI event probability prediction, serving institutions in finance, defense, insurance, and other sectors, and has already provided probability predictions for events such as the WHO pandemic and Anthropic's IPO.
According to Bloomberg, Sooth Labs, an AI lab founded by former Meta employees, is raising approximately $50 million in funding, led by Felicis Ventures, with a post-money valuation of about $335 million. The company plans to develop AI models that predict the probability of specific geopolitical and market events, offering these capabilities to enterprises. Sooth Labs has also received support from Yann LeCun and Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor.
Odaily Jeff Bezos is close to completing a $10 billion financing round, valuing his laboratory at $38 billion. The lab focuses on developing artificial intelligence technology capable of understanding the physical world and transforming engineering and manufacturing.According to informed sources, the company, codenamed "Project Prometheus," plans to finalize a funding round soon, with a valuation reaching $38 billion including the newly injected capital. The sources added that this agreement will position the company as one of the world's most well-funded early-stage startups, which includes an initial $6.2 billion raised in November. However, due to strong market demand, the financing scale has been further expanded. One source revealed that JPMorgan and BlackRock are among the participants in this new round of investment. (Financial Times)