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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VIS and NXP's VSMC venture has sold all initial capacity at its $6.7bn-$7.8bn Singapore fab before production begins in Q1 2027. Buyers of mature-node chips who missed that tranche are left bidding for output from later phases of the ramp.
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Micron's latest guidance says memory and storage supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. Teams buying hardware for those years should plan without relief, since the company says it cannot see when supply and demand will balance again.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock as GPU suppliers move into robotics model work. Robotics teams now have to decide how much of their data and failed experiments a compute vendor gets to see.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. AMD says owning the 3D and simulation lab gives it a closer view of emerging AI workloads; outside teams benefit only if the resulting GPU optimizations ship.
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AMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, 64% above the startup's last reported valuation, with no revenue disclosed. AMD says Li's team will help shape its future chip roadmaps, a forecast it is buying with shares worth under 1% of its own market value.
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SiMa.ai raised $150 million in a round co-led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45 billion valuation, about 51% above its July 2025 price. Its next chip lands in 2028 near the dense speed of the Nvidia Thor on sale today, so until then the price depends on today's Modalix chip winning Orin buyers.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, more than $100 million for each of its roughly 70 employees. The chipmaker is paying for an early look at one lab's AI workloads, and its own shareholders absorb the dilution.
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SiMa.ai raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation to scale its development environment and build its next embedded chip. For device makers on Nvidia's Jetson boards, the case turns on whether that software ports a model in the days or hours SiMa.ai claims.
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SiMa.ai closed an oversubscribed $150M Series C co-led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45bn post-money valuation, with J.P. Morgan and the State of Michigan among new backers. The round bets on chips that run AI on devices rather than in data centres.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. The chipmaker says researchers who build 3D-world and robotics models will give it deeper insight into the workloads its future hardware, software and systems must serve.
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The venue says more than the memorandum did. Humanoid margins get decided at the motion-data layer, and that is where the two companies are meeting.
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A Bitcoin-mining chip designer has rebranded as an AI silicon IP vendor, and the pitch it raised on is power per matrix multiply rather than peak performance.
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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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The pilots at Genentech, Janelia and QuEra are the test of whether one agent interface can retire per-device drivers. Its best number, 99.3% autonomous laser relock, comes from the easiest failure mode in the set.
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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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Maven Robotics won a large consumer goods contract in 2024 with a drawing of a robot and a promise to run mixed pallets from the warehouse system to the truck. Its CEO says eight robots do that work now.
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Treble's Series A extension pays for physics-simulated acoustics that model makers and device teams can use as an alternative to scraped recordings. Paladin Capital Group is betting the test layer becomes shared infrastructure.
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The Google-owned robotics unit put its real-time control, motion planning and pose estimation code under Apache 2.0 at ROSCon, along with a CNC machine tending reference design for Universal Robots and FANUC hardware.
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A Microsoft Research study of mobile manipulation reports slower mapping, later obstacle detection and halved manipulation accuracy on small onboard GPUs. The team has shipped Kubernetes tooling to move that inference off the robot.
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