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title: "Weekly AI Worldview | Scale AI’s $1B Round; DeepL $300M; Microsoft Copilot+ PCs"
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# Weekly AI Worldview | Scale AI’s $1B Round; DeepL $300M; Microsoft Copilot+ PCs

_Unique Research · Weekly AI Worldview · May 27, 2024_

One week of global AI funding, events, and people. CN charts — attach on ingest (21 images).

## Funding

-   **Recall.ai** (YC) — **$10M** Series A; >$12M total. Meeting-data API across Google Meet, Zoom, etc. for sales coaching / note apps; team toward 16+ by year-end. (Recall.ai)
-   **CoLab Software** — **$21M** Series B, Insight Partners lead + YC and others; NRR **158%**; 30–40 hires (St. John’s HQ + CA/US remote) incl. sales/HR/CS VPs. Mech-engineering collaboration. (CoLab)
-   **Scale AI** — **$1B** Series F at **$13.8B** valuation (Accel, Amazon, Intel, etc.). Data labeling for AV/robotics; OpenAI/Microsoft customers. (Bloomberg)
-   **Suno** — **$125M** Series B at **$500M** val (Lightspeed, Founders Collective, Nat Friedman, etc.). >10M users in ~8 months; “Stone” >1M plays; Copilot integration. (Suno)
-   **H** (Paris) — **$220M** seed; CEO Charles Kantor + DeepMind alums; 25 engineers/scientists; frontier action models / AI agents toward AGI. Accel, Bpifrance, Creandum + Amazon, Samsung, UiPath; angels Eric Schmidt, Yuri Milner. UiPath partnership. (H)
-   **DeepL** — **$300M** at **$2B** valuation (2× YoY); Index lead + ICONIQ, IVP, Atomico. 60+ countries, >100k org customers; first overseas office Tokyo (Japan surge), U.S. next. DeepL Write Pro (Apr) with in-house LLM. (DeepL)
-   **Praktika** — **$35.5M** Series A, Blossom Capital lead. AI language tutors; **1.2M** users; ARR nearing **$20M**. (Praktika)

## Events

-   **Reddit × OpenAI** — Reddit content (1B+ posts / 16B+ comments) for model training; deal led by COO Brad Lightcap, independent board (Altman is Reddit’s 3rd-largest shareholder). Reddit pushes AI features + data licensing. (OpenAI)
-   **Sony Music** — public ban on using its recordings/lyrics to train AI without permission; letters to hundreds of GenAI/streaming firms. (Sony / Billboard)
-   **Ampere × Qualcomm** — low-power AI data-center chip, TSMC 3nm, target next year; prototype servers shown. (Ampere)
-   **Microsoft Copilot+ PC** — on-device GPT-4o features (offline speech-to-text, multilingual translate, image gen/edit; Recall natural-language history search); Adobe deepen; multi-OEM launch **Jun 18**. (Microsoft)
-   **Samsung Bot-fit** — wearable robot for mobility assistance, Q3 push from nursing-home pilots to B2C; robot team under CTO; also Humanoid (Jae-yong Lee) and Ballie home companion. (Chosun Daily)
-   **LG CLOi × Gemini** — demo at Google Cloud Summit (27th next month); consumer launch as early as H2; smart-home AI Agent robot eyed next year. (LG)
-   **Autodesk × Wonder Dynamics** — acquires Wonder Studio (AI/cloud 3D character anim & VFX tied to Maya); Flow automation push. (Autodesk)
-   **EU AI Act** — formally adopted May 21; enters force ~20 days after publication; risk-tiered rules; fines up to **7%** global turnover or €35M; extraterritorial; highest bans expected by end-2024. (European Council)
-   **Tencent Cloud Hunyuan** — Hunyuan-lite free with 256k context; standard / standard-256k price cuts; Yuanqi free tokens to **100M**. (Tencent Cloud)
-   **Baichuan 4** — May 22; +10% / +14% / +9% on general / math / code vs prior; SuperCLUE China #1; multimodal; AI assistant “Bai Xiaoying.” (Baichuan)
-   **Adept AI** — exploring sale / strategic partners (e.g. Meta); $350M Series B, >$1B val; Fuyu-Heavy multimodal; agents for multi-software tasks. (Adept)
-   **FancyTech** — LVMH Innovation Award (+ Immersive Digital Experience) at VivaTech 2024; GenAI 3D→video for luxury. LVMH also rolling MaIA (GPT-4) + Prompt Academy (1,500 staff in 2023 → 10,000). (VivaTech)

## People

-   **Wang Xiaochuan (Baichuan)** — on Big Tech model price cuts / free tiers: confidence signal; Baichuan skipping price war to focus health / happiness / creativity apps; Bai Xiaoying not rushed to monetize. (Baichuan)
-   **Wang Yuan** — NetEase VP / NetEase Research & NetEase Shufan leader exits for GenAI startup; expects 2-year ToC innovation wave in US/EU. (Sina)

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