Opentrons raises $40 million Series E to scale lab robots for AI-driven experiments
The round was led by Avego with BroadOak Capital Partners; the company says more than 11,000 of its benchtop robots are deployed in over 80 countries.
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- OpenAI has about $11 billion committed for its round, less than half its first $30 billion target, WSJ reports
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- Intel shares fall 29%, their worst day since the 1970s, cutting about $12 billion from the US government's stake