DeepMind Alumni AI News & Updates

Simular Raises $21.5M for Desktop AI Agent with Novel Neuro-Symbolic Approach

December 2, 2025 16:00

Simular, an AI agent startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $21.5M Series A to develop autonomous agents that control Mac OS and Windows PCs directly rather than just browsers. The company uses a "...

Reflection AI Raises $2B to Build Open-Source Frontier Models as U.S. Answer to DeepSeek

October 9, 2025 22:35

Reflection, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to build open-source frontier AI models as an American alternative to Chinese labs like DeepSeek. The startup, backe...

DeepMind Alumnus Launches Latent Labs with $50M to Revolutionize Computational Biology

February 13, 2025 00:00

Latent Labs, founded by former Google DeepMind scientist Simon Kohl, has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding to build AI foundation models for computational biology. The startup aims to make biology programm...