{"id":177559,"date":"2023-12-06T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/liquid-ai-a-new-mit-spinoff-wants-to-build-an-entirely-new-type-of-ai"},"modified":"2023-12-06T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T04:22:33","slug":"liquid-ai-a-new-mit-spinoff-wants-to-build-an-entirely-new-type-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/liquid-ai-a-new-mit-spinoff-wants-to-build-an-entirely-new-type-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-ai-a-new-mit-spinoff-wants-to-build-an-entirely-new-type-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An MIT spinoff co-founded by robotics luminary <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/daniela-rus\/\">Daniela Rus<\/a> aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network.<\/p>\n<p>The spinoff, aptly named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liquid.ai\/\">Liquid AI<\/a>, emerged from stealth this morning and announced that it has raised $37.5 million \u2014 substantial for a two-stage seed round \u2014 from VCs and organizations including OSS Capital, PagsGroup, WordPress parent company Automattic, Samsung Next, Bold Capital Partners and ISAI Cap Venture, as well as angel investors like GitHub co-founder Tom Preston Werner, Shopify co-founder Tobias L\u00fctke and Red Hat co-founder Bob Young.<\/p>\n<p>The tranche values Liquid AI at $303 million post-money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MIT spinoff co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. The spinoff, aptly named Liquid AI, emerged from stealth this morning and announced that it has raised $37.5 million \u2014 substantial for a two-stage seed round [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}