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Sebastian Thrun co-founds Duolo AI engineering startup

Sebastian Thrun, who led several AI projects at Google, has co-founded Duolo, a startup building AI models for engineering. The Information reported Duolo recently raised $130 million in seed funding. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr, DST Global, Construct Capital and Low Carbon Capital joined the round, The Information reported, citing sources. Duolo aims to automate engineering design and verification.

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Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun launches robotics startup Dulo to design hardware with AI

Sebastian Thrun, an early key figure in Google’s self-driving car project and Waymo, is working on a new robotics startup called Dulo. He mentioned the company during a keynote speech at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco, but said it was not time to describe it in detail and that it remains in stealth mode. A brief page hosted by Stanford says Dulo is developing foundation models for hardware design.

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KAIST hosts Discovery Loop\'s Jeff Dean, says human-AI collaboration delivers better results

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said it held a special lecture at the Seoul AI Hub on Aug. 13 with Jeff Dean of Discovery Loop, co-founder and CEO, co-hosted with a national AI research hub. Dean introduced AI’s development over the past 15 years and future research directions, saying more computing, data and larger models improved performance. He said human-AI collaboration can achieve better results than either alone.