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Liverpool Is Building an AI City Brain and Nvidia Is Putting $250 Million Behind It
From a sovereign AI strategy for Liverpool City Region to a five-year Oxford computing deal, Nvidia's UK push is moving well past press releases.
Mistral's New Forecasting Model Tops Three Major Benchmarks at a Fraction of the Size
Timestral, a family of time-series models from Mistral AI, beats larger rivals on every major public forecasting benchmark and runs on an ordinary office server without specialist chips.
Amazon's One Million Robots Now Have a Brain That Plans Together
A new AI system called DeepFleet coordinates hundreds of thousands of warehouse robots at once. What does that mean for the workers beside them?
Humanoid Robots Are Getting Smarter. They Are Not Ready for Your Home Yet.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 gives robot builders a powerful new tool. But researchers warn that the gap between a robot handing out popcorn and one folding your laundry is still vast.
Nvidia's Kumo Tabular Reads a Spreadsheet Cold and Beats Every Tuned Model Doing It
A new open AI model from Nvidia makes predictions on business data tables without any training on your data, no setup, and no specialist required, and it just topped every major leaderboard.
What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap
Building a strong AI product is only half the battle. The harder problem is making sure it still exists as a standalone business once the big labs catch up.
Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.
Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.
The robot that learned to scoop: why food is the toughest test for physical AI
Chef Robotics has served 118 million portions in real kitchens and used that experience to build what it calls the world's largest dataset for robots handling soft, unpredictable materials. Now it wants to take those lessons far beyond food.
A $10 Million Bet on AI That Streams Worlds Forever, Not Just Clips
Visko's Orbis model generates live, interactive 4K video indefinitely, and its Stanford-trained founder says it could supply the training footage that robots headed to your home will need.
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.