Ioannis Antonoglou

Despite that, Thinking Machines is reported Lai in talks to raise at a fifty billion dollars valuation, five times where it stood in the spring, with NVIDIA now a strategic partner on top of being an investor.

Ioannis Antonoglou and Misha Laskin, Reflection AI.

The round I described as a rumor actually closed, and closed bigger, two dollars five billion at a twenty-seven dollars five billion valuation, above even the twenty-five billion dollars figure being floated at the time.

They've since signed an MOU with the Department of Energy to power the Genesis mission across seventeen national labs and partnered with Dell on an AI factory product, a fast pivot from coding agent startup to national infrastructure vendor.

The company said it still lags top Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K three, but has certain advantages on efficiency and inference time.

Joining me now is Ioannis Antonoglou, co-founder of Reflection.

Yannis, welcome to the show.

It's great to have you here.

Great.

Well, Yannis, I wanna thank you for coming on.

That is Ioannis Antonoglou, the co-founder of Reflection here on TI TV.

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