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Nvidia-Backed Robotics Startup Generalist AI Raises $400M, Hits $2B Valuation

Jun 05, 2026

Bloomberg.com

Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.

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NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3, World's First Fully Open Omnimodel, Alongside Global Cosmos Coalition

Jun 02, 2026

NVIDIA Newsroom

NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, the world's first fully open omnimodel capable of natively processing text, images, video, sound, and actions for robotics and autonomous vehicles, while simultaneously unveiling the global Cosmos Coalition to accelerate open world model development across industries.

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NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3 AI Model to Power Robots and Autonomous Vehicles With Real-World Understanding

Jun 02, 2026

NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, a groundbreaking open world foundation model combining vision reasoning, multimodal generation, and native action output to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand real-world scenarios, already topping multiple benchmarks and available now to developers worldwide.

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AI Startup Offers Free Home Cleaning in Exchange for Recording Cleaners to Train Future Robots

Jun 01, 2026

The Verge

AI startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services by having cleaners wear camera-equipped hats to record household tasks, using the footage to train future autonomous cleaning robots.

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Nvidia Unveils Vera CPU and Full AI Stack at Computex 2026, Signaling Major Shift Beyond GPUs

Jun 01, 2026

The Deep View

Nvidia unveils the Vera CPU at Computex 2026, claiming 1.8x faster performance than x86 chips for agentic AI, while launching a full AI stack including the DSX platform, DGX Station desktop supercomputer, and new robotics models — signaling a bold transformation from GPU maker to full-stack AI powerhouse with backing …

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Nvidia Launches Cosmos 3: Open-Source AI Model Trained on 20 Trillion Tokens Targets Robotics and Physical AI

Jun 01, 2026

The Deep View

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 at GTC Taipei, a fully open-source omnimodal AI model trained on 20 trillion tokens, 1 billion images, and 400 million videos, designed to advance robotics and physical AI through a new mixture-of-transformers architecture capable of reasoning and generating across text, video, images, sound, and action.

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Mistral Launches Industrial AI Stack With Robotics Capabilities, Backed by Airbus and BMW Partnerships

May 28, 2026

The Deep View

Mistral launches 'Mistral for Industrial Engineering,' a fully integrated AI stack with robotics capabilities, backed by Airbus and BMW partnerships and the acquisition of Austrian startup Emmi AI, targeting design, production, and quality inspection use cases within sovereign enterprise infrastructure.

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Figure Deploys Humanoid Robots Into Catalyst Brands' Retail Supply Chain in Major Commercial Deal

May 27, 2026

FigureAI

Figure deploys humanoid robots into Catalyst Brands' retail supply chain, automating physically demanding logistics tasks across JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers distribution networks, starting in Reno, Nevada.

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Runway Pivots From AI Filmmaking to World Models, Targeting Robotics and Drug Discovery at $5.3B Valuation

May 18, 2026

TechCrunch

Runway, now valued at $5.3 billion, is pivoting from AI filmmaking tools to building world models designed to simulate physical environments, targeting transformative applications in robotics, drug discovery, and climate modeling — but faces stiff competition from Google, OpenAI, and compute resource challenges.

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Humanoid Robots Attract Billions in Investment as Tech Giants Race to Build AI-Powered Machines Amid Hype and Uncertainty

Apr 17, 2026

The Deep View

Billions of dollars are flooding into humanoid robotics as tech giants and startups race to build AI-powered machines, with experts calling it a potential platform revolution — but serious challenges around dexterity, training data, job displacement, and overhyped expectations threaten to slow the boom.

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