New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave
Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots
Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics’ data backbone.
In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling the one nobody wants
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google’s domain.