Turing Powers Up With $111 Million Series E

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Turing&comma; a fast-growing AGI infrastructure company&comma; has secured &dollar;111 million in committed capital for its Series E financing at a valuation of &dollar;2&period;2 billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khazanah Nasional Berhad&comma; Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund&comma; led the round with participation from WestBridge Capital&comma; Sozo Ventures&comma; UpHonest Capital&comma; AltaIR Capital&comma; Amino Capital&comma; Plug and Play&comma; MVP Ventures&comma; Fortius Ventures&comma; Gaingels&comma; and Mastodon Capital Management&period; The oversubscribed round brings Turing’s total funding to &dollar;225 million since being founded in 2018&period; The round was priced when the company reached &dollar;167 million in annualized revenue run rate &lpar;ARR&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new funding will support R&amp&semi;D&comma; sales and marketing efforts for Turing’s two main business lines that work in tandem to accelerate company growth&colon; Turing AGI Advancement&comma; which empowers the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking&comma; reasoning&comma; coding&comma; agentic behavior&comma; multimodality&comma; STEM and frontier knowledge&semi; and Turing Intelligence&comma; which leverages learnings from advancing frontier AGI to build real-world AI systems and applications that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 companies&period; The company’s work is a foundational input to AGI that improves models while simultaneously benefiting from the AGI ecosystem output at the application layer as models continuously improve&period; Powering this growth is Turing’s AI-powered vetting and matching engine and its fine-tuning platform ALAN&comma; which accelerates workflows for model evaluations&comma; finetuning&comma; reinforcement learning&comma; and agent development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;At Turing&comma; our goal is to accelerate AGI advancement and deployment to build powerful AI systems with real world impact&comma;” said Jonathan Siddharth&comma; Turing’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With a mission to unleash the world’s untapped human potential&comma; we’ve built a suite of products on top of the world’s largest talent cloud to improve AI models and build applications on top of them&period;” Siddharth continued&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Using AI for vetting talent has helped us grow the platform quickly to more than four million of the world’s most talented software engineers&comma; data scientists&comma; and STEM experts&period; Our Series E round underscores the confidence our investors have in our ambitious goal and the key role we play in fueling AI progress&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As AI labs race to develop the smartest and most productive models&comma; the demand for higher-quality and specialized data has never been greater&comma; while falling inference costs and advances in price-performance will make AI more accessible than ever&period; This dual shift is accelerating both the need for Turing AGI Advancement to advance frontier models and for Turing Intelligence to help businesses deploy these breakthroughs at scale&period; By advancing AI capabilities and turning them into real-world solutions&comma; Turing is uniquely positioned to lead in the AGI era&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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