Sebastian Thrun co-founds Dulo with $130M seed round
10/30/2026 — 10/30, 01:19·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- According to The Information, Google veteran Sebastian Thrun has co-founded Dulo, a company building foundation models for hardware design,…
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According to The Information, Sebastian Thrun, the computer scientist who pioneered several AI projects at Google, has co-founded a new startup called Dulo. The company says it is focused on creating "foundation models for hardware design", and has raised a $130M seed round. At this point the public record stops there: no details have emerged yet on the funding's backers, the model's architecture, or any product timeline.
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According to The Information, Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun, has raised a $130 million seed round to build foundation models for hardware design. The company aims to apply AI models to hardware design workflows.
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