Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos - With $500M in funding and a reported $2.5B valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.