Robust Intelligence raises $30M Series B to stress test AI models – TechCrunch

Robust Intelligence, an AI startup that helps businesses stress test their AI models and prevent them from failing, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Previous investor Sequoia, which led the company's Series A round, as well as Harpoon Venture Capital and Engineering Capital also participated in this oversubscribed round. The company was co-founded by Yaron Singer, a tenured Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, and his former student Kojin Oshiba. "AI has been this academic endeavor," said Singer. "When I was doing grad school, it was an academic discipline -- it was a vision. And then came the internet, data, Google and data processing -- and then it realized its potential in the span of seven, eight years. Now we're trying to be as rigorous as we are with software development, which humanity has been doing for 60 years, right? We're trying to play catch up with AI and it's a whole different animal."