news Techcrunch Ai 2026-07-16

Former DeepMind Researcher Secures $300M Pre-Seed for Visual AI Startup

Andrew Dai, leveraging his decade of experience in AI systems development, has raised $300 million before launching a product, believing visual AI is the next major frontier in artificial intelligence.

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