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SuperAGI snags funding from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum’s secretive Newlands VC
SuperAGI, astartup striving to develop ambitious Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), has raised $10 million in a funding round led by WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum's fund Newlands VC.
Now, with its research picking up traction with some 20,000 developers — including people at Microsoft, Google, Tencent, Tesla and JP Morgan Chase and OpenAI — using the tools its already launched, it’s landed funding from a notable, under-the-radar investor. Newlands VC, the secretive firm backed by WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, is leading a $10 million Series A for SuperAGI, funding it will use for further research, as well as middleware and software applications that it believes will bring AI closer to working in a wider range of use cases, more reliably. While OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are among the wave of larger (and very well-funded) tech companies chasing that windmill, SuperAGI is among the smaller but equally ambitious players hoping to be a part of the race, carving out a unique
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