Jeff Bezos, 인간 뇌의 핵심 알고리즘을 찾는 Flourish의 25억 달러 도전 지원
Jeff Bezos는 인간 뇌를 역설계해 AI의 에너지 및 학습 위기를 해결하려는 뉴로 AI 스타트업 Flourish에 5,000만 달러 시드 라운드를 주도했으며, 이 회사는 25억 달러 가치 평가로 투자를 유치하고 있다.
flourish labs secured $50m in seed funding led by jeff bezos to build cortex ai, a synthetic intelligence system designed to match the human brains 20-watt power efficiency and learning capabilities, contrasting sharply with current llms that require gigawatts of energy and static training sets. the company, founded by former amazon executive rob williams and neuroscientist thomas reardon, plans to use wet lab experiments and interdisciplinary teams to discover the brains core algorithm, aiming to solve ais looming power and data bottlenecks. with a total war chest of $500m and a valuation of $2.5b, flourish plans to release intermediate models as products while pursuing a long-term goal of creating a brain-like system that learns continuously on minimal hardware. this signals a significant shift in investor interest toward biologically-inspired architectures that could bypass the diminishing returns of scaling existing transformer models.