Nvidia-Backed Startup CodeRabbit Valued at $1.5 Billion in Round
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A $143M round at a $1.5B valuation for AI-powered code review says the market believes verification, not generation, is the new bottleneck. Engineering leaders should budget more for tooling that inspects AI-written code than for yet another assistant that writes it.
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