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👶 Talking Babies Raised $32M

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💼 $5B legal AI flex

👶 Talking babies go viral

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Source : SiliconANGLE

Legal AI startup Harvey, backed by Sequoia and OpenAI, is in talks to raise $250M at a $5B valuation.

🚨 Breaking News:
Harvey might soon close a massive funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue tripling its valuation in just 3 months.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Harvey makes AI tools that help lawyers work faster like having a robot paralegal.

  • It's growing fast: $75M annual revenue run rate already.

  • Investors like Sequoia, Coatue, and Kleiner Perkins are circling.

  • It just added AI models from Anthropic and Google alongside OpenAI.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Harvey’s rise shows investors still love fast-growing GenAI startups, especially ones helping old-school industries work smarter.

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Hedra, an AI video tool startup, lets people create viral videos like talking baby podcasts. Investors (like a16z) are in love.

🚨 Breaking News:
Hedra raised $32M led by Andreessen Horowitz, riding the viral wave of AI-made talking babies, dogs, and more.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Hedra helps users create videos with expressive AI-generated characters (yes, even dogs with baby opinions).

  • Their Character-3 model enables long, dialogue-heavy, animated clips.

  • Andreessen Horowitz and Amazon are key backers.

  • Competes with Synthesia, Cheehoo, and HeyGen, says its avatars are way more expressive.

  • The funding will go into training better models and letting characters interact live.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Hedra is proving that AI videos can be more than gimmicks… they might just be the next wave of internet storytelling.

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Source : TechCrunch

Cognichip, founded by chip industry vet Faraj Aalaei, just raised $33M to use AI to make chips faster, cheaper, smarter.

🚨 Breaking News:
Cognichip came out of stealth with $33M to build “Artificial Chip Intelligence” that could replace human chip engineers.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Cognichip wants to speed up chip-making by using a physics-based AI model.

  • They say it could cut production time by 50%… big news for AI and hardware firms.

  • Founder Aalaei has decades in semiconductors and saw venture funding dry up.

  • Their model aims to be as good as a human engineer (minus coffee breaks).

✔️Straight to the Point:
Cognichip is betting AI can fix the chip bottleneck, it’s not a tweak, it’s a full-blown reinvention of the process.

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