Claim · 2024-03 · event · Stated in source · Supported

TechCrunch reported on 9 October 2025 that Reflection AI was founded the previous year and launched in March 2024 by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou.

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What it connects

Reflection AI → is stated to have been founded in → 2024 (launched March 2024)

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Claim and evidence

Reflection AIis stated to have been founded in ↓2024 (launched March 2024)

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: secondary · 1 source

Date: 2024-03 · event Records dated 2024 →

Scope and limitsThe record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no company text giving the founding date was retrieved. It does not establish a legal incorporation date.

Rests on reportingNo primary source supports this record; its supporting passages come from reporting.

The evidence 02

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

TechCrunch · 2025-10-09

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Source excerpt

“a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers”

Location in source Paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Rebecca Bellan
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c2e22b35ffa71cff1956a63ab28045439f1f3ddfa98513097b4878cabf3f0de6) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Rebecca Bellan, “Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek”, 2025-10-09.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (12 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L015) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

TechCrunch · 2025-10-09

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Source excerpt

“The startup was launched in March 2024 by Misha Laskin”

Location in source Paragraph 3

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Rebecca Bellan
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c2e22b35ffa71cff1956a63ab28045439f1f3ddfa98513097b4878cabf3f0de6) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Rebecca Bellan, “Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek”, 2025-10-09.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (10 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L015) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A source states the organisation’s founding date or year, at the precision it gives. Neither legal incorporation nor a complete founder roster is implied.

Date. Month of launch as reported; the report also says the company was founded “last year” (2024).

Record ID lg2-nl-reflection-founding-stated-2024