Coverage from the Actuate conference describes physical AI as being in its "GPT-2 era," constrained by a shortage of diverse, high-quality robot training data and unreliable end-to-end manipulation. Unitree's post-IPO va...
Biotech startup Vivodyne argues AI drug discovery is bottlenecked by a lack of causal human biological data, and has built HIVE modular robotic labs that grow 20 kinds of human tissue and autonomously dose and monitor th...
Encord, a data-tooling company, is manufacturing physical training data for robotics firms at a San Leandro warehouse, using egocentric camera headsets, leader-follower robotic arm rigs, and dense task annotation. In a t...
Startup XDOF has emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding to build data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for physical AI. By partnering with UC Berkeley to release the massive 'ABC' robotics da...
Silicon Valley startup Human Archive raised $8.2 million to collect first-person video and sensory data from gig workers in India to train physical AI models. By equipping workers with cameras and tactile sensors, the co...
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...
Meta plans to use data from its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes as training data for its AI models, according to a Reuters report. This practice highlights the AI industry's growing need for new training data s...
Runway, known for its video and photo generation AI models, is expanding into robotics and self-driving car industries after receiving inbound interest from companies seeking to use their world models for training simula...
President Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights, shortly after the Copyright Office released a report on AI training with copyrighted content. Representative Morelle linked the firing to Perlmutter's r...
OpenAI has informed government officials about its investigation into Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, which it claims trained models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI's API. During a Bloomberg TV interview, OpenAI's c...
