importantSYS.SOURCE: TechCrunch• 2026-10-21T20:57:40Z

Year-Old AI Startup Flapping Airplanes Secures $1B Series A at $6B Valuation

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Flapping Airplanes, a year-old AI lab, raised $1 billion in Series A funding at a $6 billion valuation, quadrupling its value from a previous $1.5 billion seed round. The startup, founded by former Neuralink and Stanford researchers, claims to have developed a data-efficient megakernel framework to optimize GPU usage for AI training and inference.

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

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