Reflection AI Raises $2B at $8B Valuation

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AI startup Reflection AI, founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin (Gemini) and Ioannis Antonoglou (AlphaGo), has raised $2B at an $8B valuation — just 7 months after being valued at $545M.

The company is pitching itself as an open-source frontier AI lab, aiming to rival OpenAI, Anthropic, and China’s DeepSeek. Reflection AI says it has already built a large-scale LLM training stack and plans to release a frontier model trained on tens of trillions of tokens next year.

Its backers include Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, GIC, Eric Schmidt, Citi, and more.

[EmTeam]

$2B in funding is no joke — investors clearly see long-term potential here. AI valuations are getting serious again.

[alex10]

Reflection AI’s momentum shows how hot the enterprise AI market still is. The next phase will be real-world deployment.