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A Robot Watched One Video and Flipped a Pancake. Skild AI Says That Changes Everything.
Skild AI's new S1 model lets robots learn tasks from a single video clip, without weeks of retraining. The company has raised nearly $1.7 billion to make it happen.
Carbon Robotics swaps dozens of crop-specific AI models for one that learns a new field in minutes
A single 'large plant model' trained on 150 million labeled plant images lets farmers define crops and weeds on an iPad, then point a laser weeder at exactly what they want gone.
Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation After Raising Nearly $200 Million More
The robotics AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, now claims its software can teach a robot a new skill from a video clip as short as three seconds.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.
Your Company Bought the AI. Now Comes the Harder Part.
NTT DATA AIVista's CEO says most enterprise AI projects fail not because the model is bad, but because no one does the unglamorous work of wrapping it in real workflows, real data, and real guardrails.
One AI model, many cancer tests: meet PRISM2, the pathology system that reads images and reports together
A new research model from Microsoft and Paige matches specialist cancer-detection tools without being rebuilt from scratch for each disease.
OlmoEarth Platform Scans an Entire Continent in 30 Hours Using Nearly 1,000 GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI has built a system that can run an AI wildfire-risk model across all of North America in about a day, at a cost of fractions of a penny per square kilometre. Here is what that actually means.
Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob
The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.
One Robot Brain, a Thousand Hands: How Generalist's GEN-1 Model Learns to Use Any Tool
A robotics startup has trained a single AI model to switch between screwdrivers, tongs, spatulas and whisks mid-task. Here's what that means for the future of robot design.
Google's TabFM learns to predict from data it has never trained on
A new AI model from Google Research can analyse a spreadsheet it has never seen before and return a prediction in a single step, no custom training required.