Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-the-brains-core-algorithm/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260604/i22.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260604/p22#a260604p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Steven Levy / <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-the-brains-core-algorithm/">Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.</p>