Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised $30M led by Lux Capital
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AI that directly tunes aviation, port, and energy throughput in the Gulf is where software meets geopolitics and hard infra. If you're building ops AI, expect more demand from asset-heavy regions that can move from pilot to system-wide deployment quickly.
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