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Flapping Airplanes

New AI research lab focused on training human-level intelligence models with dramatically less data, using biologically-inspired approaches to data efficiency

Enterprise Software

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Aidan Smithco-founderAsher Spectorco-founder

Funding History

Jan 28, 2026

Flapping Airplanes, a new AI lab focused on data-efficient model training, raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation. The team is 11 people and approximately two months old. Funds are primarily for compute.

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Flapping Airplanes raises $180M at $1.5B valuation to train human-level AI with dramatically less data
28 Jan 2026
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