Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former Chief Research Officer, has raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for his startup, Arda. He said their agent 'does for manufacturing engineers what Claude or Cursor does for programmers' and is already being used by Anduril.Read original on X
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SITUATION DETECTED: Bob McGrew's startup Arda has raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, and their manufacturing agent is already being used by Anduril, per CNBC.Read original on X
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