Cloud-sandboxed autonomy, zero-retention guarantees, SOC 2 compliance, VPC deployments, and the Windsurf acquisition that redrew the…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Granola has secured $125 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and existing investors including Lightspeed, Spark, and NFDG, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The company has now raised a total of $192 million as it accelerates its expansion into enterprise AI workflows. Originally focused on transcription […]
Insider Brief Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco robotics startup founded two years ago, is in talks to raise about $1 billion at a valuation above $11 billion, roughly doubling its $5.6 billion valuation from four months ago, according to Bloomberg. The round is expected to include Founders Fund, with Lightspeed Venture Partners in discussions to […]
Insider Brief Japanese AI avatar company AVITA has partnered with South Korea’s MegazoneCloud to develop and deploy physical AI systems that combine cloud infrastructure, robotics and conversational AI, according to the companies. The companies said the collaboration will integrate AVITA’s avatar platforms with autonomous robots to enable customer-facing applications such as in-store guidance, consultation and […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nature Robots, a technology company founded in Osnabrück in 2022 and a spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has closed a seed financing round totaling €4 million. Participants in the round include Climentum Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Planetary Impact Ventures. With the fresh capital, the company […]
Insider Brief Agibot announced it has produced its 10,000th humanoid robot. The Chinese company said the pace of production has accelerated sharply, with output doubling from 5,000 to 10,000 units in three months after taking years to reach its first 1,000. “Reaching 10,000 units is not simply about producing more robots, it reflects a fundamental […]
Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching March 29-April 4. Weekend AI News Briefs Number of AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Increasing, Study Says AI agents are increasingly exhibiting deceptive behavior in real-world use, with a study identifying nearly 700 cases of scheming, including lying, bypassing […]
Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.
Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools. That use may also influence performance reviews. The report states employees are encouraged to use tools like ChatGPT and Claude […]
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Calling an LLM API is not an architecture. Here’s what actually is.There’s a conversation I keep seeing play out on engineering teams right now, and it goes something like this.A tech lead gets pulled into a demo. The AI feature looks incredible – it a…