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Liquid AI just raised $250M Series A at $2.35B valuation from AMD Ventures. What it is: MIT spinoff building "liquid" neural networks inspired by C. elegans worm brains (302 neurons). Their models use 90% fewer parameters than traditional AI while matching performance. How it happened: • 2021: Ramin Hasani published breakthrough liquid neural network research at MIT CSAIL • 2023: Spun out with co-founders Daniela Rus, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini • 2024: Released text models, announced multimodal capabilities • Dec 2024: Closed $250M led by AMD for enterprise deployment Key metric: 100 billion connections in their largest model vs traditional networks requiring 10x more compute. Takeaway: Academic breakthroughs can become billion-dollar companies when founders focus on real-world efficiency gains over pure performance. Brewed by Startup Beaker.