AI startup Symbolica raises $31 million to develop AI systems to compete with OpenAI
ETtech.com - 2024-04-09T13:13:00.000Z

Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica, which develops foundation models to compete with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, announced a $31 million series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures on Tuesday. General Catalyst, Abstract Ventures and Buckley Ventures also participated in the round, the company said. Symbolica has created a framework that will enable it to develop alternatives to the transformer deep learning architecture, said Symbolica CEO George Morgan, who formerly worked at Tesla on...

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