Former Google, Apple Researchers Raising $50 Million for New Visual AI Startup

Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who recently left Google DeepMind after 14 years, is launching a new startup focused on AI models that understand and process text, images, video and audio simultaneously, Dai said.

The new startup, Elorian, is in talks with investors to raise a seed round of around $50 million, said Dai and another person with direct knowledge of the matter.  Striker Venture Partners, a venture capital firm founded last October by Max Gazor, former general partner at VC firm CRV, is in talks to lead the round, said the person.