Sep. 21 at 8:10 PM
Former xAI and Google employee Tina Oberoi is reportedly in talks to raise about
$50 million in seed funding for a new startup focused on combating online deepfakes, according to Bloomberg. The company, called Moir, aims to develop technology that helps people prove their identity online as increasingly sophisticated AI makes it harder to distinguish authentic digital content from generated material.
Moir is based in Palo Alto, California, and has begun discussions with investors at a valuation of around
$250 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Oberoi spent more than five years at Google before joining xAI’s data team and is among a growing group of former xAI employees leaving Elon Musk’s AI company to launch startups.
The fundraising effort comes as concerns over AI-generated deepfakes, digital authenticity and online identity verification continue to increase.
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