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Flapping Airplanes

Flapping Airplanes is a foundational AI research lab devoted to solving the data efficiency problem. They imagine a world where models can think at the level of humans without ingesting half the internet. The proof that this is possible is all around us: whereas current systems are trained on essentially all of accessible history, humans exceed AI capabilities despite seeing at most a few billion text tokens by adulthood.

Flapping Airplanes raised $180M in a Seed round announced January 28, 2026, according to x.com. Investors in that round: GV.

StageSeed
Industryother
Based inSan Francisco, United States
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  2. Seed · $180M
    GGV (lead)
    Source: x.com (startups.gallery listing)

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