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Aussies raid Amazon to build AI search start-up

Tess Bennett
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A Melbourne start-up founded by two Amazon alumni has raised $US5.2 million ($8 million) from its seed round led by Blackbird to build a search engine that allows developers to use the latest AI models in their applications.

Marqo was founded last year by Jesse Clark, a former lead scientist at Amazon Robotics AI, and Tom Hamer, a former software engineer at Amazon Web Services, who met through a mutual colleague.

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Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter. Connect with Tess on Twitter. Email Tess at tess.bennett@afr.com

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