Flapping Airplanes: AI research startup valued at $6 billion, Bloomberg reports
lihua_lei_stat · x · 2026-10-22
According to a Bloomberg exclusive by Rachel Metz (Oct 21, 2026), AI research startup Flapping Airplanes is now valued at $6 billion.
- Founded by Aidan Smith, Asher Spector, and Ben Spector; the accompanying photo shows the trio before a blackboard covered in reinforcement-learning math (KL divergence, policy gradients), hinting at an RL/agents research focus
- The retweet comes from an account affiliated with the company, thanking the reporter
One more data point in the current wave of high AI startup valuations.
Related event: GPU startup Flappy Airplanes raises $1B Series A at $6B valuation(8 posts)→
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