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  • Veeda AI Raises 0M+ Seed Backed by Khosla and Radical for Physical AI World Models

    Veeda AI, a Toronto-based foundation model startup established by former Nvidia AI research executive Sanja Fidler, has raised more than $90 million in seed funding. The round was backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, marking one of the largest seed financings recorded in Canada. Corporate filings reveal that the company, incorporated in June 2026 as Veeda Innovation, issued 60.6 million seed shares priced at $1 each in late July. Concurrent with the share issuance, Veeda added Radica

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  • Chinese AI labs dominate text-to-video: 9 of top 10 models are Chinese

    Outside of Alphabet's Google, nine of the world's top ten text-to-video models are now Chinese, according to the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The ranking, based on blind human evaluation of generated clips, places Google's Gemini Omni Flash at number one. Every slot from two through ten belongs to a Chinese lab. The Chinese contingent includes: MiniMax — H3 ByteDance — Seedance 2.0 Alibaba — Wan (two builds), HappyHorse (two builds, ~15B parameters, open weight) Kuaishou — Kling (two bu

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