Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans. Ultimately, however, both the efficacy and …
Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots
Since the earliest sci-fi books and films, computers imbued with artificial intelligence have almost always been accompanied by equally clever moving machines, like androids and other robots. Over the …
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Hugging Face is launching an open source robotics project led by former Tesla scientist
Hugging Face, the New York City-startup that maintains the popular open source repository of machine learning and AI code of the same name and the open source ChatGPT-rival Hugging Chat, is launching …
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups
Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the beginning of an astonishing funding …
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OpenAI’s Eve humanoids make impressive progress in autonomous work
"The video contains no teleoperation," says Norwegian humanoid robot maker 1X. "No computer graphics, no cuts, no video speedups, no scripted trajectory playback. It's all controlled via neural …
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OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets
OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2bn on an annualised basis, as the runaway success of its flagship artificial intelligence product ChatGPT puts it among the fastest-growing technology companies in …
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Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI
Microsoft and OpenAI are said to be exploring options to invest up to $500 million in a humanoid robotics startup, Bloomberg reported. The tech heavyweights are in talks with Figure AI, which wants to …
Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn from investors to challenge OpenAI
Elon Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise up to $6bn, as the Tesla and X chief looks to global investors, including in Hong Kong, to finance his challenge to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The billionaire’s …
Nvidia Alum Snags Funding for Startup That Fixes Broken AI
RagaAI has secured funding to develop a tool that aims to diagnose and fix flaws with artificial intelligence systems, responding to an increasing emphasis on safety and reliability during the AI …
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Google DeepMind Scientists in Talks to Leave and Form AI Startup
A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet Inc. artificial intelligence division, have been talking with investors about forming an AI startup in Paris, according to people familiar with …
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