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Photon raised a $4.5 million seed round co-led by Gradient and A*, with participation from Vercel, Sequoia (HongShan), and others. The startup helps developers build agents for iMessage and WhatsApp and says it has attracted more than 40,000 registered developers. Revenue grew 10-fold in four months, and message volume grew fivefold last month. Its managed platform offers 99.95% availability and is certified for SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance.
The alignment team at the UK's AI Security Institute and Timaeus have jointly founded Sequent, a nonprofit research organization. It argues that “alignment is not on track” and plans to grow to 40–80 full-time staff within two years, with an initial fundraising target of $100–150 million. Research areas include scalable oversight, learning theory, heuristic argumentation, game theory, and personas.
After acquiring Emmi AI, Mistral is building foundational physical AI for aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, and energy. Its announced results include AB-UPT, which processes raw geometry with 9M surfaces and 140M volume cells on a single GPU without remeshing, and NeuralDEM, an end-to-end deep-learning surrogate for large multiphysics processes.
