Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 6:18 pm

Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)

Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded. Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported. No commercial product has come out of the lab yet. Flapping Airplanes is trying to build AI models that […]

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