Group 1 - TAE Technologies has completed a new funding round, raising $150 million, with investors including Google, Chevron, and New Enterprise Associates [2] - This marks TAE's 12th funding round, bringing total funding to approximately $1.8 billion, making it one of the most funded fusion energy companies globally [2] - TAE has developed a new reactor design that no longer requires the collision of two plasma spheres to initiate reactions, allowing for a smaller, cheaper, and easier-to-operate reactor [2] Group 2 - Google has participated in two funding rounds for TAE, with the previous round in 2022 raising $250 million, and collaboration dating back to 2014 [3] - The introduction of AI has significantly reduced the time and number of experiments needed to optimize reactor parameters from about two months and 1,000 experiments to just a few hours [3] - TAE's reactor can currently generate plasma temperatures of up to 70 million degrees Celsius, with plans to heat plasma to 1 billion degrees Celsius in future commercial devices [3]