River AI Raises $1.1 Billion for User-Owned AI
Multiple AI researchers reply with congratulations to Igor Babuschkin.
Igor Babuschkin received replies on X from Mark Tenenholtz, Alex Graveley, Aleksa Gordić, Ying Sheng, Will Depue, Andrew Carr, Banghua Zhu, Deedy Das, and Elie Bakouch. Each message offers brief congratulations. The posts reference River AI raising $1.1 billion to develop AI systems owned and shaped by users. They also mention the River API as the company's first product for building custom agents and LLMs from open-weight models. Babuschkin is identified in the replies as a former xAI co-founder with prior roles at DeepMind and OpenAI.
Today, we're sharing that River AI has raised $1.1 billion, led by @generalcatalyst and @amppublic with strategic investment from @nvidia and @AMD. Additional investors include @ycombinator and @Temasek. We imagine a future where your AI works entirely for you and deeply aligns…
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River AI@river_ai_incToday, we're sharing that River AI has raised $1.1 billion, led by @generalcatalyst and @amppublic with strategic investment from @nvidia and @AMD. Additional investors include @ycombinator and @Temasek. We imagine a future where your AI works entirely for you and deeply aligns…
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EL JR IB Igor Babuschkin@ibab@garrytan Thank you Garry, we appreciate your support!
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