Foundation Models AI News & Updates
General Intuition Raises $320M to Build General-Purpose Foundation Models for Embodied AI and Robotics
Robotics startup General Intuition has raised $320 million to develop a foundation model for physical AI, aiming to bring a "ChatGPT moment" to robotics. By training on video game data, the company has created a spatial-...
Wirestock Raises $23M to Supply Multi-Modal Creative Data to AI Foundation Model Makers
Wirestock, a platform that originally helped photographers sell stock photos, has pivoted to become a data provider for AI labs, raising $23 million in Series A funding. The company now supplies images, videos, design as...
Genesis AI Unveils GENE-26.5 Foundation Model with Custom Robotic Hands and Data Collection Gloves
Genesis AI has revealed its first foundational robotics model, GENE-26.5, alongside custom-designed robotic hands that match human hand size and shape. The startup has developed a full-stack approach including sensor-loa...
Meta Acquires Humanoid Robotics Startup to Advance Embodied AI Research
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup developing foundation models for humanoid robots capable of performing physical labor and adapting to human behaviors. The ARI team, including co-founders Xia...
Physical Intelligence Unveils Robot AI with Emergent Task Generalization Capability
Physical Intelligence has released research on its π0.7 model, demonstrating that the robot brain can perform tasks it was never explicitly trained on through compositional generalization. The model successfully combined...
Agile Robots Partners with Google DeepMind to Integrate Gemini AI Models into Industrial Robotics
Munich-based Agile Robots has entered a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models into its robots across industrial sectors including manufacturing, automotive, data center...
Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Achieves Major Leap in Professional Task Performance with 45% Success Rate
Anthropic's newly released Opus 4.6 model achieved nearly 30% accuracy on professional task benchmarks in one-shot trials and 45% with multiple attempts, representing a significant jump from the previous 18.4% state-of-t...
Arcee AI Releases 400B Parameter Open-Source Foundation Model Trinity to Challenge Meta's Llama
Startup Arcee AI has released Trinity, a 400B parameter open-source foundation model trained in six months for $20 million, claiming performance comparable to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick. The model uses a truly open Apache l...
Humans& Raises $480M to Build Foundation Model for AI-Powered Team Coordination
Humans&, a startup founded by former employees of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, has raised a $480 million seed round to develop a foundation model focused on social intelligence and team coordination...
Skild AI Raises $1.4B at $14B Valuation for General-Purpose Robot Foundation Models
Skild AI, a startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.4 billion in a Series C round led by SoftBank, valuing the company at over $14 billion. The company develops general-purpose foundation models for robots that can be ret...