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Flapping Airplanes Raises $180M Seed Round to Pursue Data‑efficient AI

Flapping Airplanes, a new AI research lab focused on data‑efficient training, announced it has secured $180 million in seed funding. The undisclosed round gives founders Ben and Asher Spector and Aidan Smith runway to develop novel AI models that require far less data.

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