AI startup Flapping Airplanes raises $1B Series A at $6B valuation

Flapping Airplanes, an AI laboratory less than a year old, has raised $1 billion in Series A funding at a $6 billion valuation. The round comes nine months after the company closed an $180 million seed round.

The startup is focused on developing AI models that require significantly less internet-sourced training data than current approaches. This addresses an emerging challenge in AI development: the practical and ethical limits of training models on vast amounts of web content.