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Beyond Chatbots: The Next Wave of AI

Former Google DeepMind researcher Oriol Vinyals, AI pioneer Yann LeCun, and former AIX Ventures co-founder Shaun Johnson have launched a new venture capital firm called 224 Ventures. With over $100 million in assets, the firm aims to provide seed-stage funding for AI-native startups. This launch signals a continued influx of capital into the AI sector from prominent researchers and industry veterans looking to influence the development of next-generation machine learning technologies.

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