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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
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Radical Numerics emerges with $50M seed for multimodal biological AI; previews Omnii genome model

Radical Numerics, an AI research lab founded by the team behind Evo (the first open-source model to read and write DNA at scale), announced a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital with participation from Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Factory, and First Spark Ventures. The company is building general biological intelligence—multimodal AI that reasons across DNA, RNA, proteins, and other biological data—with dual focus on advancing human health and biodefense.

Alongside the funding, Radical Numerics previewed Omnii, its next-generation genome language model featuring a 2M-token context window and multimodality. The company is partnering with a cancer diagnostics firm on pancreatic and multi-cancer detection, combining molecular signals into unified diagnostics. It's also collaborating with a national laboratory to develop AI-powered pathogen detection. CEO Eric Nguyen frames the challenge directly: the same models that accelerate drug discovery can lower barriers to biological weapons.

For architects evaluating biosecurity and AI-biology convergence: Radical Numerics is among the first frontier-model companies to bake dual-mandate (design + defense) into the foundation rather than bolt-on safety later. The $50M valuation reflects investor appetite for AI applied to biology's code, but it also signals early capital racing to dominate a space where release strategies (open vs proprietary) will shape biosecurity posture for the decade ahead.

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