Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced ambitious projections of $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027 at the company's GTC conference. The keynote emphasized Nvidia's strategy to become foundational infrastructure across...
Memories.ai, founded by former Meta engineers, is building visual memory systems for AI wearables and robotics using Nvidia's Cosmos Reason 2 and Metropolis platforms. The company has raised $16 million and released its...
Alphabet is moving its robotics software subsidiary Intrinsic under Google's umbrella to accelerate physical AI development. Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, will work closely with Go...
Tesla has invested $2 billion in xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup behind the Grok chatbot, as part of xAI's $20 billion Series E funding round. The investment proceeded despite shareholder rejection of a nonbinding measure in...
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...
CES 2026 demonstrated a significant industry pivot from software-based AI (chatbots and image generators) to "physical AI" and robotics applications. Major demonstrations included Boston Dynamics' redesigned Atlas humano...
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-...
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...
Researchers at Andon Labs tested multiple state-of-the-art LLMs by embedding them into a vacuum robot to perform a simple task: pass the butter. The LLMs achieved only 37-40% accuracy compared to humans' 95%, with one mo...
Mbodi, a New York-based startup, has developed a cloud-to-edge AI system that uses multiple communicating agents to train robots faster through natural language prompts. The system breaks down complex tasks into subtasks...
