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Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon raises $500M for Flourish, a brain-inspired AI efficiency startup valued at $2.5B

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Thomas Reardon is raising $500M at a $2.5B valuation for Flourish, which uses neuroscience to make AI radically less power-hungry. Lux Capital and GV lead the round.

Image by: WebSummit TL;DR Thomas Reardon, who created Internet Explorer and sold neural interface startup CTRL-labs to Meta for up to $1 billion, is raising approximately $500 million for Flourish at a $2.5 billion valuation. The startup uses connectomics and neuroscience to design AI architectures that are radically more energy-efficient, targeting the architectural layer above silicon rather than building new chips. Lux Capital and GV, who backed CTRL-labs, are expected to lead the round. Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser

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