Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there’s a data problem that needs to be solved.

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech

Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to “ride that SpaceX IPO wave.”

It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for… Continua a leggere It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features

Bluesky’s latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.