Physical intelligence
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- 2026-07-22 funding Physical Intelligence is reportedly being eyed for acquisition by AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI. source
- 2026-07-22 funding Physical Intelligence is reportedly being eyed for acquisition by AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI. source
- 2026-04-08 product_launch Physical Intelligence leverages Modal's infrastructure for real-time robotic inference. source
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Ex-Meta researchers' startup pays gig workers for robot training data
Memories.ai, a startup founded by former Meta researchers, is collecting first-person video data to train robots. They have launched a global gig-work platform called Memories Upload, paying individuals to record themse…
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Bain Capital's Ajay Agarwal sees 'golden era' for physical AI
Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures has identified a significant shift in investment towards physical AI and robotics, a field he backed early with Kiva Systems. He believes the current era is a 'golden age' for hardw…
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Bezos-backed Physical Intelligence develops adaptable robot foundation models
Physical Intelligence, a company backed by Jeff Bezos and OpenAI, is developing adaptable robot foundation models. These models aim to enable robots to learn skills, such as folding laundry, on one machine and then appl…
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AI Robot Association releases foundation model trained on 16,151 hours of human operation data
The AI Robot Association (AIRoA) has released AIRoA-0, a robot foundation model trained on 16,151 hours of human operation data collected via a handheld gripper called YUBI. This model, built upon Physical Intelligence'…
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AI moves beyond screens to interact with the physical world
A presentation by Professor Zhang Weinan from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory discussed the concept of "physical intelligence." This field aims to bridge the gap between…
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Ant Lingbo open-sources robot AI brain, gains global traction
Ant Group's embodied AI company, Ant Lingbo, showcased its fully open-source generalist AI brain for robots at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit. The LingBot series models have achieved over 2.2 million d…
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AI Data Notes: LLM Prices Rise, Funding Surges, and MCP Servers Fluctuate
TANDIU's weekly data notes for October 26 to November 1, 2026, reveal a dynamic AI landscape. The LLM API price index saw a slight increase, driven by a change from Mistral AI, with Hunyuan A13B remaining the lowest-pri…
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Physical Intelligence API Beta Launches, AlphaNIST Project Introduced
Physical Intelligence has launched a beta for its API, aiming to provide frontier models for robotic applications. Separately, a project called AlphaNIST has been introduced, though its specific function is not detailed…
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Robots achieve 83% generalization with single-demo learning framework
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Stanford have developed a new framework called RAPID to improve robot generalization in physical tasks. This approach moves away from data-intensive, end-to-end …
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Modal crosses $1B ARR, raises $750M Series D for AI infrastructure
Modal, an AI infrastructure company, has announced it has surpassed a $1 billion annualized run rate and secured $750 million in Series D funding. The company's platform has seen a significant increase in usage, triplin…
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New AI papers explore physical intelligence and video generation
Two new AI research papers have been highlighted, focusing on different aspects of artificial intelligence. The first paper, "GroundingPI," introduces a foundation model for physical intelligence using visual primitives…
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Physical AI & Robotics Funding Surges to $48B in 2026, Driven by Data Needs · 1 source tracked
Global investment in physical AI and robotics has surged, with nearly $48 billion allocated in the first nine months of 2026, surpassing the entire previous year. This capital is flowing into various aspects of the indu…
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Robotics-as-a-Service startup Ultra raises $62M, partners with AI firm
Ultra, a company that provides robots as a service to warehouses, has secured $62 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, and was preceded by a $12 mil…
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Chinese robotics firm Star-Epoch's VPP2 model tops global rankings, outperforming GPT-6 and Nvidia
A Chinese robotics company, Star-Epoch, has developed a world action model (WAM) called VPP2 that has achieved the top ranking on the RoboDojo benchmark, surpassing leading models like GPT-6-ASTRA and Nvidia's GR00T-N1.…
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Robotics leaders discuss real-world AI deployment at Runway Summit
Paril Jain, co-founder and CTO of The Bot Company, and Quan Vuong, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, discussed real-world evaluations and the future of robotics at the Runway AI Summit. Their conversation touched upo…
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Chinese AI model Maxwell leads global physical task rankings
A new embodied AI model named Maxwell, developed by the CAS Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Industries in China, has achieved the highest score ever recorded on the Meta-World benchmark for physical tasks. Maxw…
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GroundingPI model advances physical intelligence with visual primitives
A new 4-billion parameter grounding foundation model called GroundingPI has been introduced, aiming to advance physical intelligence through visual primitives. This model establishes a new state-of-the-art across 34 gro…
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Embodied AI model DM0.5 sweeps four key benchmarks, showing broad capability
The embodied AI model DM0.5 has achieved top rankings across four sub-leaderboards on the RoboColiseum benchmark, a comprehensive evaluation platform for embodied intelligence. This model is the first to excel in all fo…
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Shengshu Technology's Motus2 enables robot self-evolution with closed-loop learning · 2 sources tracked
Shengshu Technology has released Motus2, a world model for embodied AI that aims to enable robots to self-evolve through a closed-loop system of action, prediction, and evaluation. This new model integrates multiple mod…
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Robotics firms explore new models for robot education beyond controlled settings
The robotics industry faces a significant challenge in educating robots for practical, real-world tasks, moving beyond controlled demonstrations. A framework developed by Sielo Robotics outlines four models for robot ed…