Slingshot AI Launches Ash, An AI Platform Designed For Therapy 

Slingshot AI launched Ash, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed for therapy. The company also announced an extension of its Series A funding co-led by Radical Ventures and Forerunner Ventures, joining previous investors a16z, Felicis, and Menlo. Total capital raised is now $93 million.

Ash provides personalized mental health support via a smartphone app. Ash is built on a special-purpose foundation model for psychology developed over the past 18 months. The company stated that it was tested by 50,000 beta users. This specialized model is trained in three phases:

It is pre-trained using a large and . . .