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Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M


A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who's who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned.

A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who’s who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned. Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it has raised $640 million in a new funding round led by… In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed chatbot startup.

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