One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models

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By Anna HeimMay 27, 2025, 2:59 am217 pts
One of Europe’s most prominent AI researchers, Matthias Niessner, is now the CEO of SpAItial, a startup working on spatial foundation models.

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