Meta is offering a "contributor" pricing tier for its new Muse Spark agentic coding model that cuts token costs by roughly 95% (input from $1.25 to $0.10 per million; output from $4.25 to $0.20) for users who let their p...
The Trump administration submitted a 20-page amicus brief in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that training LLMs on copyrighted material falls under fair use and that restricting it would harm U.S. AI...
AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round valuing it at $3.2 billion, roughly a 10x jump from its $300 million Series A five months earlier, making it Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn according...
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...
