AI
Ex-Palantir founders raise $17m to teach AI the physics of buildings
Dream, founded by former Palantir executives Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, left stealth with $17m in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with SV Angel, XYZ and Zigg Capital joining. The startup is building a world model trained on more than 100 million square feet of US building data drawn from permit archives, aiming to generate structurally sound designs rather than pictures. It says ten projects in Texas and California already use the tool, which targets incumbents such as AutoCAD and Revit.