Spike Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)

We raised $8M to keep building the future of interactive animation, led by AlbionVC and Spark Capital and with participation of Root Ventures and Alumni Ventures. Generative Physics Animation was a dream only 2y ago. Fast-forward to today, we've proven that it works. We are scaling up to evolve the animation paradigm towards lifelike physical interaction which emerges in real-time as you play. We aim to provide new creative workflows to author and deploy generative physics behaviors seamlessly; no need for keyframes or pre-baked animation. Living, fully interactive characters: by default. You can read more in this article by Dean Takahashi. Stay tuned for updates! https://lnkd.in/efW_8PUT

We’re partnering with Dell Technologies to accelerate secure, agentic enterprise AI solutions. Dell will be the first provider to offer our secure agents platform, Cohere North, to enterprises on-premises, which is crucial for regulated industries handling sensitive data. This private, efficient, and user-friendly platform will enable businesses to rapidly deploy AI agents across their workforce, boosting productivity and streamlining operations. The next phase of enterprise AI innovation will focus on delivering end-to-end, fully customizable solutions like North that speed time-to-value for customers. We’re excited to continue building on this partnership with Dell to revolutionize global business through agentic AI. Learn more in our blog: https://lnkd.in/gP5uCF9E

It feels like just a short pulse ago that the WHAM fusion experiment launched at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Realta Fusion emerged from that project in 2022 with the goal of commercializing the magnetic mirror concept, raised seed financing in 2023, and fired our first plasma shot in 2024. Today, we announce the next major milestone on our pathway to commercial fusion energy: we have closed a $36 million Series A round to bring this dream even closer to reality. Led by new investor Future Ventures and returning investor Khosla Ventures, this funding will allow us to advance the magnetic mirror beyond a groundbreaking physics experiment and toward a rigorously validated and commercially viable fusion energy system that is as de-risked as you can get it in the lab before you actually go out and build it in the real world. While the work of building compact, scalable, modular fusion energy systems (or CoSMo systems, as we réaltaí call them) waits for no one, for a brief moment we pause to mark the culmination of 5 years of intense and uncompromising work and thank the countless individuals involved who have committed themselves to no less than recreating the power of the sun on planet Earth and the production of clean, reliable, and abundant energy for all humankind. And now, back to work.

The Official Llama API ⚡️Accelerated by Groq In partnership with AI at Meta, we’re offering the fastest way to run Llama with no tradeoffs. Served directly from Meta on the world’s most efficient inference chip.