Nvidia joins $200m spherical raised by Shashuas AI startup
Unique: US chip big Nvidia has joined the $200 million financing spherical raised by AA-I Applied sciences, the brand new AI startup of Mobileye International Inc (Nasdaq: MBLY) founder Prof. Amnon Shashua, “Globes” has realized.
The corporate, which operates in stealth beneath the media radar, develops AI brokers and skilled language fashions in numerous fields like physics, math and life sciences, has raised $221 million thus far, with the most recent $200 million financing spherical accomplished at an organization valuation of about $1 billion. The spherical was led by US enterprise capital fund Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, together with Michael Dell, Bessemer Enterprise Companions, Pitango First, and Greenfield Companions. Pitango, the Barkat brothers BRM and DTC Fund participated within the earlier $21 million seed spherical.
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AA-I Applied sciences was based in Jerusalem, and moved to workplaces in Ramat Gan, the place it has a number of dozen staff, primarily AI engineers and PhDs within the subject. After “Globes” first reported on the corporate’s existence two years in the past, Shashua launched AA-I Applied sciences for the primary time in a tweet on X in December 2024, writing that one among its objectives is to develop reasoning fashions that may carry out processes and make selections like human specialists.
The brand new fashions, the programming for which was developed by Shashua and his crew – who’ve labored at different Shashua firms like AI21 Labs and Mentee Robotics – permit AI programs to make extremely correct and proper selections whereas engaged on fixing an issue or finishing a activity – an necessary part in remodeling AI right into a sort of digital agent that won’t solely be glad with offering solutions to questions, however may also carry out duties and, above all, will suppose like a human skilled – equivalent to a software program developer, physician or researcher.
The corporate was based in August 2023 by Shashua, his associate in founding the robotics firm Mentee Robotics, Prof. Shai Shaled Swartz, and a number of other promising scientists who had been Shashua’s former college students within the Division of Pc Science, together with Prof. Yoav Levin – a former AI scientist at Shashua’s AI21, whose postdoctoral work he accomplished at Stanford; Prof. Or Sharir, additionally a former AI21 scientist who accomplished his postdoctoral research at Caltech; Dr. Noam Weiss, an algorithmist recruited from Orcam, one other Shashua portfolio firm; and Dr. Gal Binyamini, from the College of Arithmetic and Pc Science on the Weizmann Institute of Science.
No response from the corporate has been forthcoming.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on November 18, 2025.
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