FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, five times last year's mark, Business Insider reported. The pitch is robots that cross changing sites like construction without a pre-built map, and so far only FieldAI has stated the setup savings.
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A $200M extension prices the robot foundation model startup at $3B, led by an investor already on the cap table. The field evidence is a company claim about three-second demos.
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Skild says a single video demonstration teaches its S1 model an unseen ten-minute task with no weight updates. The accuracy figure published alongside that work is 66 percent per manipulation step.
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The floor on Figure's compute commitment is about twice all the equity it has disclosed raising, and the vendor writing that contract now owns a piece of the customer owing it. Whether the $3.5bn is take-or-pay is undisclosed.
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Google committed to 200 MW from Commonwealth Fusion's first plant and RWE put EUR 25m behind Proxima Fusion next to a shut-down reactor site, deals where the access mattered more than the valuation. Only one of them involves a signed purchase.
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A software-only startup with no robots of its own is betting that open weights and human video can substitute for the fleet it cannot finance.
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Sources cited by TechCrunch say the 44-person lab is in talks at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, weeks after closing at $2.3 billion. That is a 2.6x step-up, and more than 3x pre-to-pre.
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A $14 billion valuation on roughly $30 million of half-year revenue, and three arm makers now shipping someone else's model inside machines they sell under their own names.
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The AI accounting startup raised $100mn led by ICONIQ and names Oracle, SAP, Workday, Microsoft and NetSuite as pre-AI relics. Its proof point is a finance team of three.
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Gravis Robotics is worth $1 billion for bolting autonomy onto machines contractors already own. The capital in construction robotics is going to the aftermarket, not the assembly line.
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