Google X co-founder Thrun raises $130M for Dulo

Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Google's X lab and a key figure behind Waymo and Google Brain, has raised $130 million for AI startup Dulo. Co-founded with Adrian Aoun, Dulo is building foundation models optimized for hardware design tasks, with robotics among its stated focus areas. Backers include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, early Google investor Ram Shriram, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and venture capitalist John Doerr. Dulo's chief rival is Prometheus Inc., an engineering AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos that raised $12 billion earlier this year.