FieldAI, a leader in robotic autonomy, has raised $405 million across two oversubscribed funding rounds, pulling in heavyweight backers including Bezos Expeditions, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Intel Capital, Temasek, Khosla Ventures, Canaan Partners, and BHP Ventures. Previous investors Gates Frontier and Samsung also participated.
Somite.ai, a biotech startup building foundation models for human stem cells, has landed a strategic investment from AMD Ventures. The deal follows Somite’s $47 million Series A raise in May, led by Khosla Ventures, and adds serious compute firepower to the company’s mission: using large-scale AI to transform the way cell therapies are discovered and developed.
Runloop, fresh off a $7 million seed raise, wants to end one of software development’s most maddening bottlenecks: environment setup. Today, the company unveiled Repository Connect, a feature that automatically provisions secure, production-ready environments from GitHub repositories in seconds—removing a major roadblock for teams deploying AI coding agents at scale.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot just took a leap forward—literally and figuratively. In a newly released video, Atlas performs a long sequence of packing, sorting, and organizing tasks powered by a Large Behavior Model (LBM), a neural network that treats locomotion and manipulation as one unified system.
Fotor wants to make design as simple as chatting. The popular AI-powered creative platform today introduced Fotor AI Agent, nicknamed “Sisi”—an intelligent assistant that can generate and edit photos or videos in seconds, all through natural conversation.
If talking to a machine still feels like… talking to a machine, a young Silicon Valley startup wants to change that. Voicing AI says its flagship text-to-speech engine, Kat, can now respond in under 70 milliseconds—faster than the blink of an eye, and quick enough to make conversations with AI systems feel nearly indistinguishable from human dialogue.
Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, has made OpenAI’s latest open-weight models—gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B—available on its AI Cloud platform. The models are instantly accessible through the Core42 Compass API, giving enterprises, researchers, and developers a choice of leading silicon platforms for scalable, high-performance inference.
Qubrid AI, known for its high-performance GPU Cloud platform, has unveiled a 2-Step No-Code Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Service—a mouthful of a name for a potentially game-changing way to make AI chat with your own files, instantly and securely.
SkyWork AI’s Technology Release Week is rolling out one cutting-edge model per day, and today’s headliner might be its most developer-friendly yet. UniPic 2.0, an open-source, unified multimodal framework for image understanding, generation, and editing, is now available—complete with model weights, inference code, and optimization strategies.
