SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2026--Graphon AI emerged from stealth today with $8.3 million in seed funding to build a new class of AI infrastructure: a pre-model intelligence layer that captures how data connects – making foundation models more accurate and capable of reasoning over unlimited multimodal data. The round was led by Arvind Gupta of Novera Ventures, with participation from Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, GS Futures, Hitachi Ventures, Gaia Ventures, B37 Ventures, and Aurum Partners (the inv