Nando de Freitas, a former leading researcher at Google DeepMind and Microsoft AI, has raised $60m for his new startup Revolution Labs, according to sources.
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Revolution Labs is said to be building a type of AI diffusion models for text generation
Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Freya Pratty
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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