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Existing OpenRouter investor that participated in the Series B.
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The set runs from AI SAST to virtual patching. Harness has published no customer results, so the case rests on owning the pipeline rather than on detection quality.
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Per-token prices fell about 200x since GPT-4's launch while US enterprise AI spend tripled to $37 billion. Tokenizer variance, reasoning tokens and tier discounts are where the bill diverges.
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Menlo Ventures led a round that more than tripled Wispr's lifetime funding in one go, on the back of a speech model the company says cuts word error rates by two thirds or better.
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The startup says a new model, Canto, will cut error rates from 30% to under 10% after weeks of user complaints. It is also entering meeting notes, where three incumbents already sit.
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The Series B values the dictation app at $2 billion and funds a push into meeting notes, a category where two of the four rivals Wispr names are already in California court.
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Wispr raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation six months after its last round. Its lead investor says the competitive set is every text box in front of an AI model.
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A payments company is paying model-lab money for the layer that decides which model gets the request. The routing decision and the settlement decision are converging into one stack.
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