How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $300M at a pre-seed valuation before launching a product. Dai, who spent over a decade building influential AI systems including research that informed ChatGPT, believes visual AI is a major frontier. The funding round values the unnamed company at $300M pre-launch. No product details or timeline were disclosed.