LastMile AI, a platform designed to help software engineers develop and integrate generative AI models into their apps, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Gradient, Google’s AI-focused venture fund.
AME Cloud Ventures, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch, 10x Founders and Exceptional Capital also participated in the round, which LastMile co-founder and CEO Sarmad Qadri says will be put toward building out the startup’s products and services and expanding its seven-person team.
“Machine learning, and the broader field of AI, has gone through a few AI winters — oftentimes due to a constraint on computing resources, a constraint on expertise or a constraint on high-quality training data,” Qadri told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We plan to democratize generative AI by streamlining the tooling and disparate workflows and simplifying the need for deep technical expertise.”
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