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Models keep getting better, but the infrastructure wrapped around agents changes every few weeks: from tool calls, MCPs to context engineering and loops and whatever comes next. But the system around the model needs to hold up to all of that. Danila Shtan, CTO of Nebius, made that case at our Applied AI Conference back in May. His talk just went live on our Conference YouTube channel, one of several we've been posting, with more going up over the next few weeks.
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A former power trader with an engineering background across Allego, ENGIE, and GE who built renewable power trading operations from scratch is now exploring financial infrastructure for compute in Europe. Bringing the price transparency and hedging tools of energy markets to AI capacity and pricing risk. He is looking for a technical co-founder. Reach out through this form if that sounds like you.
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Augustus just closed a $180M Series B, led by Tiger Global, at a $1B valuation. They're building a bank from scratch to fix the correspondent banking system even fintechs are stuck with. They are hiring software engineers and DevOps engineers in Berlin. See their open roles here.
Atira has been running AI agents inside 14 European industrials for a year, closing the gap between the CRM and the ERP for technical sales teams. Last week, they launched properly with a new website. They are looking for AI Engineers to own the agent systems and evals and Software Engineers to build out the production infrastructure and integrations.
Arrakis, founded by ex-Accel VP Rafael Quintanilla, just raised a $30M Series A led by Blossom Capital, with Accel, GFC and angels from Datadog and OpenAI, at a $140M valuation, seven months after founding. They embed AI agents directly into industrial operations (aerospace, energy, logistics, manufacturing) and are already live with 5 customers. They now want to triple their 15-person team. There's no job board yet, so reach out directly at [email protected].
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