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Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’

Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing ...

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