Funding Alert｜Year-Old Flapping Airplanes Raises $1B Series A at a $6B Valuation
Flapping Airplanes raised a $1B Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, taking its valuation from $1.5B at seed to $6B in nine months — a 4x jump. The signal: Silicon Valley is treating 'data efficiency' as the next frontier in the foundation-model arms race — not feeding models more of the internet, but training equally capable models on far less data.