Flapping Airplanes Secures $1 Billion In Series A Funding Led By Index Ventures And Lux Capital

Flapping Airplanes, an AI lab developing advanced GPU programming systems to improve the efficiency and flexibility of AI training and inference, has raised a $1 billion Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital. The company has developed a megakernel framework capable of running training, inference, and video games within a single kernel, aiming to reduce AI costs and enable new applications in robotics and scientific discovery. Other institutional backers include Sequoia, Valor, Atreides, Kleiner Perkins, GV, NVIDIA, and others, alongside individual investors including Steven A. Cohen and Henry Kravis.

FOUNDERS: Ben Spector, Asher Spector & Aidan Smith

INVESTORS: Index Ventures, Lux Capital, Nova, Sequoia, Valor, Atreides, Kleiner Perkins, Fundomo, BCV, GV, Hummingbird, Hof, Absolute Ventures, A*, CRV, Definition, Seven Stars, Genesis, Jump Trading, XTX Ventures, Snowy Leopard, NVIDIA, Steven A. Cohen, Stan Duquesne, Henry Kravis & Micky Malka

ROUND: Series A AMOUNT: $1,000,000,000

HQ: San Francisco, California

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