The beginning of the end of the transformer era? Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding at $750M valuation

AUI Raises $20 Million at $750 Million Valuation Cap Following Breakthrough in Neuro-Symbolic AI

Bridge SAFE closed in one week for Apollo-1, AUI's neuro-symbolic conversational AI foundation model.

The beginning of the end of the transformer era? Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding at $750M valuation

The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular "transformer" architecture used by most of today's LLMs such as ChatGPT and Gemini, has raised $20 million in a bridge SAFE round at a $750 million valuation cap, bringing its total funding to nearly $60 million, VentureBeat can exclusively reveal.The round, completed in under a week, comes amid heightened interest in …

AUI Raises $20M At $750 Million Valuation

AUI raised $20 million in a bridge SAFE round, at a $750 million valuation cap, more than doubling its previous cap and signaling strong investor confidence in its neuro-symbolic AI technology. This brings AUI’s cumulative funding to approximately $60 million across multiple rounds since 2017. Participation from returning investors like eGateway Ventures and New Era Capital Partners, alongside existing shareholders and strategic backers, with ea…

Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M  —  The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular …