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

- Source: TechCrunch
- Published: 2026-10-21T20:57:40+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/year-old-ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-raises-1b-at-a-6b-valuation/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/year-old-ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-raises-1b-at-a-6b-valuation-b437e4/

Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."

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