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‘Ride of a Lifetime’: Aussie Founder Nets $5.6bn for AI Start-up

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A Melburnian who arrived in Silicon Valley with only a suitcase and a laptop has agreed to sell his start-up Modular to Qualcomm for $US3.9bn.

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This reporting details the acquisition of AI infrastructure startup Modular by Qualcomm for approximately US$3.9 billion. Modular is significant for developing the Mojo programming language and a unified AI engine designed to optimize how AI models run on diverse hardware. While the acquisition highlights the massive commercial value of frontier AI stack components, the content focuses on the financial success of its Australian co-founder rather than specific safety protocols or catastrophic risk mitigation.

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