LoginTravis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
22 July 2026 at 14:50
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
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21 July 2026 at 06:00
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Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment
8 July 2026 at 15:19
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
8 July 2026 at 13:47
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
