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Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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Trajectory, founded by former staff from DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta, raised $40 million led by Sequoia at a $300 million valuation to build continual learning models.
For engineers, the funding signals growing investment in continual learning as a way to reduce reliance on expensive closed-source AI models that require frequent full retraining. It suggests more tooling and pre-trained bases may become available for adapting models to new data without costly rebuilds. If successful, continual learning could lower operational costs and improve model freshness in production systems.
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Trajectory was created by ex-employees of DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta to develop continual learning models.
The company secured a $40 million funding round led by Sequoia, resulting in a $300 million valuation.
The round reflects investor interest in continual learning as a response to rising costs of proprietary AI models.
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