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Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.

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Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

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The Information: Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise “hundreds of millions” led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation

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