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Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion. 

AI That Reads Plant Signals A sensor the size of a folded smartphone, screwed through bark into a

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion. 

The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.