New Zealand expat tech entrepreneurs are absolutely killing it on the world stage at the moment, innovating in artificial intelligence and raising huge capital rounds to fund their ambitions.Last week, it was Jeff Hawke's turn, whose company Odyssey simulates the real world to make AI systems more useful, raising US$310 million (NZ$529m) in a Series B round that valued the business at US$1.45 billion.Hawke used to work with University of Auckland graduate Alex Kendall at Wayve, the London-based autonomous vehicle company Kendall co-founded,...
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