DeepMind offshoot Emulate nears $700M seed round

Bloomberg reports that UK AI startup Emulate, founded by former DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise about $700 million in a seed round, illustrating investor appetite for startups founded by alumni of prominent AI labs. Such a seed round size would be unusually large.

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