Electric Plant's Bombadil Translates Plant Electrical Signals Into Actionable Farm Intelligence

Electric Plant, a startup that has spent three years building a specialized large language model, has released Bombadil, an AI system that decodes electrical signals flowing through plant stems to diagnose plant health and stress in real time. The California company, cofounded by neuroscientist Lee von Kraus and CEO Justin Mast, announced a $11.2 million seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic to scale the technology across agriculture and forestry.