Google X联合创始人Sebastian Thrun 融资 1.30M AI工程启动 Dulo
由著名人工智能研究者塞巴斯蒂安·特伦(Sebastian Thrun)共同创办的起步公司(Dulo Inc.)拥有1亿3千万美元的融资资金。
"资讯"周四爆出投资消息。 杜洛联合创始人阿德里安·奥恩(Adrian Aoun)在一篇关于X的文章中证实了这份报告。
在今年早些时候与Thurn合作的发布 Dulo之前，Aoun以超过3000万美元的价格将一个名为Wavii Inc.的早期自然语言处理启动出售给Google LLC. 他还投资了Pinterest Inc等公司。 Thrun转而共同创办了Google的X研究实验室。 他领导了后来成为Waymo的X程序并帮助建立了Google Brain，这是Google DeepMind的前身。
Dulo的回合包括前Google首席执行官Eric Schmidt和搜索巨头的首批投资者之一Ram Shriram的贡献。 他们与SalesforceCEO马克·贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)，出名的风险投资家约翰·多尔(John Doerr)和超过一打起步基金相接。 Dulo没有披露其估价。
该公司的一页网站表示，它正在开发用于硬件设计任务的优化的基础模型。 8月，Thrun将机器人列入杜洛的重点领域。 公司AI可能是为了加速工业机器人和自主车辆的开发。
2007年，Thrun在领导了Stanley的开发后加入了Google，这是一款帮助启动自主驾驶市场的早期自驾车。 他后来在Google联合创始人Larry Page的资助下创立了飞行出租车起步。
Dulo的模型会自动化。 一种可能性是，启动者希望优化工程模拟，硬件团队在制造之前使用这些模拟来检查其产品设计是否有缺陷。 Dulo网站表示
另有多家以工程为主的AI起步公司也在为优化模拟而努力。 最近获得资助的玩家"芬奇4D Inc."已经建立了一个平台，将所谓的模拟项目的 Meshing阶段自动化。 Meshing是一个过程，工程师通过这个过程将一个产品的蓝图变成由小的三维外形组成的集合。 这一安排减少了进行模拟所需的硬件数量。
其他AI起步公司正致力于加速部分分化等式。 模拟器依靠这样的等式来预测硬件系统在现实世界条件下的行为。
杜洛最受风险支持的对手是由Amazon.com公司创始人Jeff Bezos共同领导的工程AI启动公司Prometheus Inc. 今年早些时候由贝佐斯和一批金融机构出资的融资120亿美元。 和杜洛一样，普罗米修斯正用AI来加速机器人等复杂硬件系统的发展。
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Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo
Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding.
The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo co-founder Adrian Aoun confirmed the report in a post on X.
Before launching Dulo with Thurn earlier this year, Aoun sold an early natural language processing startup called Wavii Inc. to Google LLC for over $30 million. He has also invested in companies such as Pinterest Inc. Thrun, in turn, co-founded Google’s X research lab. He led the X program that later became Waymo and helped establish Google Brain, a precursor to Google DeepMind.
Dulo’s round included contributions from former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt and Ram Shriram, one of the search giant’s first investors. They were joined by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, famed venture capitalist John Doerr and more than a half dozen startup funds. Dulo didn’t disclose its valuation.
The company’s one-page website states that it’s developing foundation models optimized for hardware design tasks. In August, Thrun listed robotics among Dulo’s focus areas. It’s possible the company’s AI is meant to speed up the development of industrial robots and autonomous vehicles.
Thrun joined Google in 2007 after leading the development of Stanley, an early self-driving vehicle that helped kickstart the autonomous driving market. He later founded a flying taxi startup with financial backing from Google co-founder Larry Page.
It’s unclear what hardware design tasks Dulo’s models will automate. One possibility is that the startup hopes to optimize engineering simulations, which hardware teams use to check their product designs for flaws before manufacturing them. Dulo’s website states that it’s looking to facilitate “manufacturing at lightspeed.”
Several other engineering-focused AI startups are also working to optimize simulations. One recently funded player, Vinci4D Inc., has built a platform that automates the so-called meshing phase of simulation projects. Meshing is a process through which engineers turn a product’s blueprint into a collection of small, three-dimensional shapes. That arrangement reduces the amount of hardware needed to run simulations.
Other AI startups are working to speed up partially differentiated equations. Simulators rely on such equations to predict the behavior of hardware systems under real-world conditions.
Dulo’s most prominent venture-backed rival is Prometheus Inc., an engineering AI startup co-led by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos. The company raised $12 billion in funding earlier this year from Bezos and a group of financial institutions. Like Dulo, Prometheus is using AI to speed up the development of complex hardware systems such as robots.
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