🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-11-26
I highlight two exciting funding rounds for Cradle and Halcyon, plus a thought-provoking Bluesky thread.
Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday from companies both started in the ancient times of 2021.
🧬 + 🤖 Seeing a company like Cradle take $73M Series B is amazing and the funding may assist the creation of an open-source Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) dataset for antibody binders.
https://www.techmeme.com/241126/p9#a241126p9
🦄 + 🤖 Unicorns are born of funding and the… Halcyon days 🤓of applying Capsule Networks (CNNs) via CapNet to Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) has led to a $100M Series C.
https://www.techmeme.com/241125/p19#a241125p19
Bonus: Great Bluesky thread from Jack Poller
https://bsky.app/profile/poller.bsky.social/post/3lbrtl37pmd2f
Bonus bonus: Perhaps Halcyon (AI) will be so successful that another Halcyon (Eco AI) will be needed to better manage energy consumption used to combat attacks powered by… AI?
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