French AI startup Mistral launched its Mistral 3 family, including Mistral Large 3, an open-weight frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, alongside nine smaller Ministral 3 models designed for edge...
Nvidia announced Alpamayo-R1, an open-source reasoning vision language model designed specifically for autonomous driving research, at the NeurIPS AI conference. The model, based on Nvidia's Cosmos Reason framework, aims...
Finnish startup NestAI has secured €100 million in funding led by Finland's sovereign fund and Nokia to develop AI products for defense applications, including unmanned vehicles and autonomous operations. The company is...
Coco Robotics, a last-mile delivery robot startup, has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab. The lab will leverage millions of miles of data collected by Coco's...
SoftBank Group announced the acquisition of ABB Group's robotics business unit for $5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026. The acquisition is part of SoftBank's strategic focus on "physical A...
Alibaba has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Physical AI software stack into its cloud platform, enabling development of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces through synthetic data generation....
Nvidia unveiled new Cosmos world models including Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter vision language model designed for physical AI applications and robotics. The company also introduced neural reconstruction libraries...
Apptronik, a University of Texas spinout developing humanoid robots, has secured a $350 million Series A round led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with participation from Google. The Austin-based company, which has ove...
