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The U.S. Strikes Back: Reflection AI Raises $2B to Battle DeepSeek
October 18, 2025·13 min·1 clip
The CEO of Reflection AI warns that if America doesn't act, the 'global standard of intelligence' will be built by China, not the US.
As heard by us
A huge raise, an open-source push, and a bid for frontier-scale model building.
Reflection AI's $2 billion raise is a scale story as much as a speed story: the company says its valuation has climbed to $8 billion, from $545 million just seven months earlier.
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You want the real stakes behind a $2 billion AI raise.
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