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Market AI chip executives tell CNBC demand remains 'almost unlimited'; enterprises pivot to 'valuemaxxing' from 'tokenmaxxing' Funding Probook raises $40M Series A from a16z & Sequoia; dispatch-first AI for $700B home services market Funding Radical Numerics emerges with $50M seed for multimodal biological AI; previews Omnii genome model Funding Probook raises $40M ($34M Series A, a16z lead) for AI dispatch OS targeting $700B home services Funding Probook raises $40M for home-services dispatch AI; technician-to-dispatcher ratios hit 100:1 Breaking Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1; opens paid Model API with $1.25/$4.25 per token pricing Market Meta rolls out Muse Image; prioritizes advertiser integration through Advantage+ for ad-creative automation Market SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq at $170; raises $26.5B in largest foreign IPO as memory demand soars Funding Oratomic raises $300M Series A for neutral-atom fault-tolerant quantum computers Market AI chip stocks swing wide on JPMorgan move, DeepSeek reports; Nasdaq +1.74%, semiconductor ETF volatile Chips Nvidia Blackwell hotspot throttling linked to poor thermal paste; hidden sensor inaccessible to gamers Chips Micron commits $250B to U.S. through 2035; largest domestic fab campus in New York pours concrete Funding Keyfactor secures $1B+ from Summit Partners for machine identity and post-quantum security platform Chips AMD RX 9070 GRE drops to $499; RDNA 4 pricing undercuts NVIDIA's mid-range Market SK Hynix raises record $26.5B in largest foreign IPO; memory shortage to persist through 2030 Funding BrainCo raises $280M for non-invasive brain-computer interface wearables Chips SK Hynix warns 2027 will be "worst year ever" for memory shortage; forecasts crunch through 2030 Market Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 API at 25% of OpenAI/Anthropic pricing; $1.25/$4.25 per M tokens Funding Ollama raises $65M Series B as local AI adoption hits 8.9M monthly developers Chips Colibrì proof-of-concept runs 1.5TB frontier model on 25GB RAM; hints at consumer-scale inference Market AI chip executives tell CNBC demand remains 'almost unlimited'; enterprises pivot to 'valuemaxxing' from 'tokenmaxxing' Funding Probook raises $40M Series A from a16z & Sequoia; dispatch-first AI for $700B home services market Funding Radical Numerics emerges with $50M seed for multimodal biological AI; previews Omnii genome model Funding Probook raises $40M ($34M Series A, a16z lead) for AI dispatch OS targeting $700B home services Funding Probook raises $40M for home-services dispatch AI; technician-to-dispatcher ratios hit 100:1 Breaking Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1; opens paid Model API with $1.25/$4.25 per token pricing Market Meta rolls out Muse Image; prioritizes advertiser integration through Advantage+ for ad-creative automation Market SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq at $170; raises $26.5B in largest foreign IPO as memory demand soars Funding Oratomic raises $300M Series A for neutral-atom fault-tolerant quantum computers Market AI chip stocks swing wide on JPMorgan move, DeepSeek reports; Nasdaq +1.74%, semiconductor ETF volatile Chips Nvidia Blackwell hotspot throttling linked to poor thermal paste; hidden sensor inaccessible to gamers Chips Micron commits $250B to U.S. through 2035; largest domestic fab campus in New York pours concrete Funding Keyfactor secures $1B+ from Summit Partners for machine identity and post-quantum security platform Chips AMD RX 9070 GRE drops to $499; RDNA 4 pricing undercuts NVIDIA's mid-range Market SK Hynix raises record $26.5B in largest foreign IPO; memory shortage to persist through 2030 Funding BrainCo raises $280M for non-invasive brain-computer interface wearables Chips SK Hynix warns 2027 will be "worst year ever" for memory shortage; forecasts crunch through 2030 Market Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 API at 25% of OpenAI/Anthropic pricing; $1.25/$4.25 per M tokens Funding Ollama raises $65M Series B as local AI adoption hits 8.9M monthly developers Chips Colibrì proof-of-concept runs 1.5TB frontier model on 25GB RAM; hints at consumer-scale inference
Funding

Probook raises $40M Series A from a16z & Sequoia; dispatch-first AI for $700B home services market

Probook, a New York-based AI operating system for home service businesses, raised $40 million in funding comprising a $34 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $6 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, which also participated in the Series A. The company was founded by George Eliadis, who grew up in his family's pressure-washing business and later worked at a $40M HVAC/plumbing/electrical contractor, giving the team rare domain expertise in trades.

Unlike AI vendors that crowded the home services space with chatbots and voice agents, Probook built its platform around dispatch—the scheduling brain that determines which technician goes to which job. Early customers report dramatic operational wins: Summers Plumbing booked 2,542 jobs in its first month without human intervention; Del-Air cut dispatchers from 22 to 10; Peterman Brothers centralized dispatch across 11 markets and 200 technicians without adding overhead. The platform integrates intake, customer messaging, and outbound communication into a single context layer.

For platform architects: Probook's approach (operational spine first, agents second) inverts the typical AI startup playbook in services. It targets a $700 billion industry where fragmentation—local shops, PE roll-ups, legacy dispatch tools—has resisted consolidation. The $40M bet signals investor conviction that trades are ready for purpose-built AI infrastructure when founders actually understand the work.

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