Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is

Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is all as it seems?

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This week we discuss: 00:53 Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in one of Europe’s largest AI rounds ever 03:56 What the pitch deck from Adaptive, a new AI startup raising at a $100m valuation, tells us 07:15 French startup Quandela raises €50m to manufacture commercial quantum computers 11:03 Swedish startup wants to ‘stream energy like music’ on electric roads to charge cars as they drive 18:21 10x more money goes to VC funds owned by all-male vs all-female teams

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