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Freehand Secures $75M to Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend for Fortune 500 Companies

# Freehand Secures $75M to Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend for Fortune 500 Companies - Freehand, whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Penny Pritzker’s PSP Growth, Nexus Venture Partners and others. PRESS RELEASE — [Freehand](https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=4Db68Q-wTbL_nGI_9uJgBfMQOHozVdSxSDG0IyJLqJsurdFanMZ5gCt2sRUjptSmMhoE6vdkF4O-zSOavfvm6A==), whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, has announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from former U.S. This financing round follows Freehand’s recent emergence from stealth with global deployments at Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin’ and Cardinal Health, as tariffs, taxes and immigration policies put increasing strain on the outsourcing model that has historically run global supply chains. Across early deployments, customers have recovered 5–10% of spend in complex categories, completed workflows 5–7x faster, and reduced procure-to-pay cycles by more than 70%. “Unlike co-pilots that simply answer questions, Freehand’s Agents have enterprise context, make decisions, and take actions — this agency unlocks millions in savings for enterprises.” Freehand builds autonomous AI agents that run supply-chain spend for the world’s largest enterprises — taking on procurement, supplier management, invoice and payment operations across complex categories such as logistics, direct materials and MRO. Headquartered in San Francisco, Freehand is backed by Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, NewRoad Capital Partners and others.

Theaiinsider 2 weeks, 5 days ago

A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million

# A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million Gravity offers a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform that helps advertisers place ads within [AI chatbots and to agents](https://www.businessinsider.com/ads-ai-agents-marketing-industry-debate-2026-8), a supply-side platform that helps developers of AI applications monetize through ads, and an exchange that connects the two. Gravity is also testing an "agent-to-agent" ad product that human users don't see. "Every time the agent is looking for shoes, it's given a list of all the different advertisers we have that are selling shoes," Oldham said. Down the road, Gravity plans to integrate direct payment solutions so an agent can make a purchase once the user gives the go-ahead.

Businessinsider 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Berlin Startup Raises $15M to Scale Enterprise AI Customer Agents

# Berlin Startup Raises $15M to Scale Enterprise AI Customer Agents 6 August 2026 Share [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F&via=The+Cryptonomist) [Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/&media=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg&description=Enterprise%20AI%20customer%20agents%20automate%20multi-channel%20interactions,%20boosting%20efficiency%20and%20supporting%20human%20teams%20in%20large%20enterprises.) [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents%20%0A%0A%20https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/) [More](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/#) [![enterprise AI customer agents](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents-696x464.jpeg)](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg) Enterprise AI Customer Agents Transform Customer Support A Berlin-based startup just landed **$15 million** to prove that businesses don’t need to reinvent artificial intelligence from scratch to fix one of their oldest headaches: customer service that actually scales. telli, founded in 2024, has raised the seed round to expand its platform of **enterprise AI customer agents** that [handle voice calls](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/institutional-real-estate-tokenization-saudi/), WhatsApp messages, live chat, and email on behalf of companies that would otherwise need armies of support staff. ## Key takeaways - telli raised **$15 mill

En 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Spotify Vets’ eCommerce-Focused AI Startup Raises $10 Million

# Spotify Vets’ eCommerce-Focused AI Startup Raises $10 Million ## Get the Full Story The release also cites projections from McKinsey projects that [AI agents](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/ai-agents/) could orchestrate up to $1 trillion of U.S. retail by 2030, which makes understanding shopper behavior more valuable. “Consumers are also looking ahead: 64% expect to use [AI shopping agents](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-voice-agents-take-over-the-retail-sales-floor/) within two years, especially for tasks such as comparing products, managing loyalty programs and handling returns,” PYMNTS wrote. #### Featured News [Item-Level Data Gives AI Agents Smarter Buying Power](https://www.pymnts.com/opinion/2026/item-level-data-gives-ai-agents-smarter-buying-power/)

Pymnts 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A To Scale AI Agent Infrastructure

Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A To Scale AI Agent Infrastructure Sapiom has raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its infrastructure platform for deploying, operating and scaling artificial intelligence agents. Dragonfly led the round, with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collective, Formus Capital and VanEck Ventures. Existing investors Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic and Array Ventures also participated. The financing follows Sapiom’s $15 million seed round completed six months earlier and brings the company’s total funding to $50 million less than a year after its founding. Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, will join Sapiom’s board of directors as part of the financing. _“Agents are becoming employees with no manager and no budget, and increasingly, the CTO is the one acting as CFO, allocating real money with no visibility into where it goes.”_

Pulse2 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI

# Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that [Naïve](https://usenaive.ai/), which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch. Taking vibe coding a step further, the startup claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business — provided you supply the AI agents and the required token budget, of course. The rest of the set up can be done by your AI agents, including setting up email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, computing resources and connections to services such as Stripe and QuickBooks. The company also provides templates for businesses, such as AI SEO, full-stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting, customer support, and even a mobile emulator with which agents can operate smartphone apps on emulated devices. [AI](https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/), [AI agents](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-agents/), [AI infranstructure](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-infranstructure/), [Fundraising](https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/), [Startups](https://techcrunch.com/category/startups/)

Techcrunch 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, [Business Insider reported](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mechanize-deal-talent-tech-ai-coding-2026-8). ## The timing is brutal Meta just launched [its own coding agent](https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-muse-code-ai-coding-agent-launch).

Thenextweb 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Israeli researchers uncover zero-click attacks targeting AI browsers

# Israeli researchers uncover zero-click attacks targeting AI browsers ## Zenity Labs demonstrates vulnerabilities in Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT Atlas and Edge that allow attackers to hijack AI agents and access user data. - [Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe)

Calcalistech 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes

## InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter [InfoQ Homepage](https://www.infoq.com/)[News](https://www.infoq.com/news)Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes [Building AI Agent Evals for High-Stakes Incident Response (Webinar Aug 6th)](https://www.infoq.com/url/t/d11afba3-09f8-4d32-ae2d-da1ac283a89c/?label=Datadog-EventPromoBox) # Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes ## About the Author #### **Mark Silvester** - Related Editorial - [Open-Source Agent Sandbox Enables Secure Deployment of AI Agents on Kubernetes](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/agent-sandbox-kubernetes/)

Infoq 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Three's Company: Meta Says Its AI Agents Went Rogue During Testing Too

# Three’s company: Meta says its AI agents went rogue during testing, too By[Shubhangi Goel](https://www.businessinsider.com/author/shubhangi-goel) You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow ![A Meta sign is pictured.](https://i.insider.com/6a73e7c38fcc2e955f7dda54?width=700) Meta has joined the cybersecurity mishap bandwagon.TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images Aug 5, 2026, 10:02 PM ET [Read in app](https://insider-app.onelink.me/4cpG/?af_js_web=true&af_ss_ver=2_3_0&af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Fmeta-says-ai-agents-went-rogue-hack-testing-openai-anthropic-2026-8&af_force_deeplink=true&is_retargeting=true&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fmeta-says-ai-agents-went-rogue-hack-testing-openai-anthropic-2026-8&pid=businessinsider&c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23) SaveSaved 0 Listen to this story Meta has joined a growing list of companies saying their models hacked into an external company's system during cybersecurity testing. In a statement on Thursday, the social media company said its [Muse Spark model](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-launches-muse-spark-1-1-cost-effective-ai-2026-7) "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies." The Meta spokesperson said the breach occurred because of a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent company Meta uses for model testing. Meta added that it learned of the incident when Irregular notified the company. In a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday, Irregular said the incident comes down to the same evaluation environment issue that Anthropic disclosed last week. "This did not involve a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action. There are no current open issues," an Irregular spokesperson said. The Information first reported on the Meta AI model incident on Wednesday. Email addressSign up By clicking "Sign up",

Businessinsider 2 weeks, 6 days ago

AI Agents Engaged in Malicious Cyber Activity During U.K. Tests (Aug 5, 2026)

[Articles](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) [Law Firms](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) [Organizations](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) - [AI Agents Engaged in Malicious Cyber Activity During U.K. Tests](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c) [Articles](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) [Law Firms](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) [Organizations](https://www.vitallaw.com/news/ai-agents-engaged-in-malicious-cyber-activity-during-u-k-tests/cspd018598e18c0e4f44289487ca3f6863126c?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) AI (artificial intelligence) agents engaged in self-directed malicious cyber activity—sending phishing messages to individuals and trying to insert malicious code in open-source software—during tests conducted by the United Kingdom ... AI (artificial intelligence) agents engaged in self-directed malicious cyber activity—sending phishing messages to individuals and trying to insert malicious code in open-source software—during tests conducted by the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI), the institute disclosed yesterday. The AISI regularly conducts safety tests on AI models and does so without the guardrails that would be in place for commercial releases of the mo

Vitallaw 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Autonomous actors need new AI agent governance

### Agentic AI forces a reckoning on governance as autonomous actors enter production Enterprise cyber resilience company Rubrik Inc., which this week [unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/rubrik-unveils-agent-identity-govern-ai-agents-one-tool-call-time/) to govern agent access one tool call at a time, argues that agents demand an entirely new control layer. ### A new class of AI agent governance for autonomous actors An agent can pull data from Salesforce, then paste sensitive fields into an outbound email — each action authorized, the combination toxic. To avoid flooding humans with endless approvals, [Rubrik built SAGE](https://www.rubrik.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/26/rubrik-rolls-out-industrys-first-semantic-ai-governance-engine), a small language model trained to act as a cybersecurity professional that vets actions at machine speed. “The entire bull case on agents is that they’re doing 10 times as much work as a human in the same amount of time,” Rishi said. “If I’m sitting there and I’m hitting approve, approve, approve, we feel like it’s more security theater than anything else.” Rubrik’s internal deployment emits trillions of tokens, so raw telemetry needs an intelligence layer to surface risk and runaway spend. In one case, the company found that a small fraction of activity drove a disproportionate share of cost. Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of [Black Hat USA](https://www.thecube.net/events/informa-tech/black-hat-usa-2026): Dev Rishi, Rubrik | Black Hat 2026 - YouTube Tap to unmute [Dev Rishi, Rubrik | Black Hat 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXh5Xi1mlA) [SiliconANGLE theCUBE](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q) ![thumbnail-image](https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_mlDgMX_BLgN3NaBjDMZMp28HAfVEtGb7FOK7M7TkV7jec=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj) SiliconANGLE theCUBE79.7K subscribers [Watch on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXh5Xi1m

Siliconangle 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Researchers Gave AI Agents Internet Access. Some Went After Real People and Organizations

# Researchers Gave AI Agents Internet Access. Some Went After Real People and Organizations Aug 5, 2026 SHARE LinkedInFacebookXBlueskyLink ADD ON GOOGLE ![](https://img-cdn.inc.com/image/upload/f_webp,c_fit,w_1920,q_auto/vip/2026/08/ai-cybersecurity-inc-1838138285.jpg) 0:00 / 0:00 [AI agents](https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/what-are-ai-agents-heres-how-they-can-help-you-get-stuff-done/91160443) from [Anthropic](https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/why-anthropics-claude-is-the-co-founder-of-the-year/91265072) and OpenAI were caught targeting humans and real-world organizations once again—but this time under the watch of the AI Security Institute (AISI). The U.K. government-backed research organization [published a report](https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing) on Tuesday disclosing “sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations” that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI engaged in during routine testing. The AI models were granted internet access and had cybersecurity safeguards intentionally removed. The findings follow closely on the heels of [self-reported incidences from both OpenAI](https://www.inc.com/chloe-aiello/openai-just-revealed-the-hugging-face-ai-hack-was-bigger-than-anyone-knew/91381984) and [Anthropic](https://www.inc.com/chloe-aiello/anthropic-says-its-ai-models-went-rogue-too-they-thought-they-were-in-a-simulation/91383349) in which agents took to the open internet and autonomously compromised real-world organizations, although the parameters of AISI’s tests were different. Featured Video Patty Arvielo on Hiring People Better Than You Patty Arvielo on Hiring People Better Than You More Videos Keyboard ShortcutsEnabledDisabled Play/PauseSPACE Mute/Unmutem Live 00:00 02:20 02:20 According to AISI’s report, the [AI agent](https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/what-are-ai-agents-heres-how-they-can-help-you-get-stuff-done/91160443) decided to use a supply-ch

Inc 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Klaviyo agrees to acquire AI startup Agency and hires founder Elias Torres as chief product officer

[**Klaviyo agrees to acquire AI startup Agency and hires founder Elias Torres as chief product officer**](https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/c2abd215_klaviyo_agrees_to/) # Klaviyo agrees to acquire AI startup Agency and hires founder Elias Torres as chief product officer ![Klaviyo agrees to acquire AI startup Agency and hires founder Elias Torres as chief product officer](https://mezha.net/eng/kd_image_generate/c2abd215_klaviyo_agrees_to/3330042.jpg?ver=2.0.15) As reported by [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/klaviyo-acquires-elias-torres-agency-in-full-circle-reunion-for-tech-founders/) Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old artificial intelligence customer support startup founded by Elias Torres. Founded in 2023, Agency had raised $32 million from investors including Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, and Felicis before the acquisition. _Elias and the team built an excellent product at Agency._ ## Elias Torres’ role in the future combined company As part of the deal, Torres will join Klaviyo as chief product officer (CPO), leading Agency’s 25-person team to accelerate the development and expansion of Klaviyo’s AI agents: Composer, which creates marketing campaigns, and Customer Agent, which handles post-purchase support, including returns and order tracking. _Elias and I have joined forces around the mission of how we deliver agents to businesses that they can pass on to their customers._ _This is the next major technology revolution: agents._ Klaviyo and its executives view agents as a key component of the next technology revolution and intend to continue working with Elias Torres, just as they did at the beginning of the cloud computing era. - [Meta unveiled Business Agent and a Business Agent Platform at Conversations in London, offering AI agents for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram to automate bookings, sales and lead qualification.](https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/5e6927a5_meta_la

Mezha 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Sapiom Secures $35 Million to Help Companies Control AI Agent Costs

# Sapiom Secures $35 Million to Help Companies Control AI Agent Costs [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/sapiom-secures-35-million-to-help-companies-control-ai-agent-costs/&t=Sapiom+Secures+%2435+Million+to+Help+Companies+Control+AI+Agent+Costs)[Tweet This Post](https://twitter.com/share?text=Sapiom+Secures+%2435+Million+to+Help+Companies+Control+AI+Agent+Costs%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20-&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/sapiom-secures-35-million-to-help-companies-control-ai-agent-costs/)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/sapiom-secures-35-million-to-help-companies-control-ai-agent-costs/&title=Sapiom+Secures+%2435+Million+to+Help+Companies+Control+AI+Agent+Costs&summary=&source=)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=Sapiom%20Secures%20$35%20Million%20to%20Help%20Companies%20Control%20AI%20Agent%20Costs&BODY=I%20found%20this%20article%20interesting%20and%20want%20to%20share%20it%20with%20you.%20Check%20it%20out:%20https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/sapiom-secures-35-million-to-help-companies-control-ai-agent-costs/) | Listen to ArticleListenPause ## Get the Full Story 5) [press release](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260805915898/en/Sapiom-Raises-%2435-Million-Series-A-to-Power-the-Next-Trillion-AI-Agents). The company’s platform now powers more than 100,000 agents runs per day, the release said. Sapiom also announced Wednesday that it is launching three new products: [Sapiom Router](https://www.sapiom.ai/products/router/), which matches each model call to the right model; [Sapiom Agent Studio](https://www.sapiom.ai/products/studio/), which gives engineering teams a local environment for building, testing, inspecting and deploying agents; and [Sapiom Runtime](https://www.sapiom.ai/products/run

Pymnts 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Perplexity Wins Appeal Against Amazon in AI Agent Shopping Lawsuit

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Yahoo 2 weeks, 6 days ago

“Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us” The Agents #12 is Here!

# “Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us” The Agents #12 is Here! ## The real unlock: our database came alive We are officially off Marketo after 10 years. The migration everyone quoted us a year and $100K for took an hour for the data itself. Getting every form, page, and Zapier connection moved took considerably longer, and it was a beast. The moats in B2B have gotten lower. They are not gone. We are now running Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next, essentially headless. There are a handful of things Amelia still clicks in the UI, mostly publishing segments, and we’re leaving it that way on purpose. The agent builds the segment. A human hits publish. That’s your database. Two weeks ago we genuinely weren’t sure we’d stay. We had debated skipping marketing automation entirely and running our own Postgres of 450,000 names with Beehiiv for newsletters and Resend for transactional. Some folks on social were critical of the Marketing Cloud choice. I had doubts myself. One week in, we are not moving, and the reason has almost nothing to do with the feature list. Our database is alive now. For 10 years it was a static object. Names went in, emails went out, and once a quarter if we were disciplined we’d do a cleanup pass. It tells us who to email based on what people actually did. It suggests how to find new names that look like people who have already taken action with us. It flagged that Marketo had been duplicating part of our database while missing other people entirely. Our newsletter clicks went up sharply, call it 50%. Some of that is a freshly warmed IP that 10K was fanatical about protecting. It told Amelia not to burn the new domain on people who hadn’t earned it, and to keep sending the least engaged names from the old system until we couldn’t anymore. Mailchimp cut much of theirs, and you can see it in their trajectory. So the buying standard has changed for us. Not what does the platform do. Not what’s on the homepage. Is the underlying database

Saastr 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

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