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This DeepSeek Rival Founded By DeepMind Alum Raises $2B, Hits $8B Valuation
Reflection AI plans to develop open-source AI models focused on autonomous coding and superintelligence, backed by major investors in a $2 billion funding round.
- On Thursday, Reflection AI announced a $2 billion funding round led by Nvidia that values the New York startup at $8B.
- Founded in March 2024, Reflection AI was created by former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou to build an open-source frontier AI lab in America.
- Reflection launched Asimov in July and secured a compute cluster, planning a frontier language model next year trained on tens of trillions of tokens using an MoE and RL training stack.
- Investors including Nvidia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Eric Schmidt and 1789 Capital backed the round, which represents a 15x jump from a $545M valuation seven months ago.
- Positioned against OpenAI and DeepSeek, Reflection aims to release model weights publicly while Cisco researchers recently flagged vulnerabilities in DeepSeek’s R1, highlighting open-source security risks.
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Reflection raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an open-source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2B at $8B valuation to build superintelligent open-source AI models - Tech Startups
Reflection AI, the New York startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, has raised $2 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $8 billion. Barely a year old, Reflection AI is already positioning itself […] The post Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2B at $8B valuation to build superintelligent open-source AI models first appeared on Tech Startups.
Startup founded by former DeepMind researchers Reflection AI raises $2 billion
Reflection AI, a startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion at a $8 billion valuation. This has been a huge leap from its prior $545 million valuation. While the startup was originally focused on autonomous coding agents, it is now positioning itself as both an open source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as a Western alternative to Chinese AI company DeepSeek. The fundi…
The young think-tank, founded in 2024 by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has just completed a record $2 billion fund-raising, bringing its value to $8 billion. A spectacular progression — multiplied by fifteen in just seven months — that propels the company to the rank of new challenger of laboratories ... Read more The article Reflection raises $2 billion to become the open reference laboratory of the U.S.A. appeared first on Fredzone.
Reflection AI Raises $2B in Series B Round, Valuation Soars to $8B - USA Herald
Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI announced Thursday that it has raised a staggering $2 billion in its Series B funding round, a move that catapulted the company’s valuation to $8 billion, according to multiple media reports. In a blog post published on its website, Reflection AI said the round was powered by a mix of Reflection AI Raises $2B In Series B Round, boosting valuation to $8B amid open AI model push.
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