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&, 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, 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...
Nvidia unveiled a complete ecosystem for physical AI at CES 2026, including robot foundation models (Cosmos Transfer/Predict 2.5, Cosmos Reason 2, Isaac GR00T N1.6), simulation tools (Isaac Lab-Arena), and new Blackwell-...
General Intuition, a startup spun out from Medal, has raised $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents with spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities using 2 billion gaming video clips annually. The company is tr...
The AI industry is experiencing a strategic shift where foundation models like GPT and Claude are becoming interchangeable commodities, undermining the competitive advantages of major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. S...
Meta has officially reorganized its AI division into a new structure called Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), comprising four groups focused on foundation models, research, product integration, and infrastructure. The r...
Genesis AI emerged from stealth with $105 million in seed funding to build a foundational AI model that can power various types of robots for automating repetitive tasks. The startup uses proprietary synthetic data gener...
Matthias Niessner, a prominent European AI researcher, founded SpAItial and raised $13 million to develop AI models that generate interactive 3D environments from text prompts. The startup aims to create what Niessner ca...
Danielle Perszyk, who leads human-computer interaction at Amazon's AGI SF Lab, will be speaking at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley. She will join representatives from Google DeepMind and Twelve Labs to d...
