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- Enact Intelligence raises reported $30M pre-seed for touch-sensing robots
Zurich-based Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth with a reported $30 million pre-seed round backed by redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital, with angel investors including Mistral founder Arthur Mensch and Yann LeCun. The company says its robots sense force and touch through their motors rather than relying only on cameras, and that the approach can be adapted from robot arms to full humanoids. Founder Manuel Yves Galliker also said existing video models can be adapted to output robot actions. Enact is in talks with large European companies in manufacturing, infrastructure, retail and food processing about using its first robots. Another supplied report described the round as a €26.68 million seed round, leaving the amount and round terminology unresolved.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - Quantum Bit Points to Maxinsights as a Possible OpenAI Egocentric Data Supplier
Quantum Bit reported that Maxinsights may supply OpenAI with large-scale egocentric training data, while noting that OpenAI has not publicly identified its supplier. The report says Maxinsights has delivered more than 2 million hours of data, operates a collection network spanning more than 2,000 environments, and lists Google DeepMind, Figure AI, Dyna Robotics and Genesis AI among its customers. Quantum Bit also reported expected third-quarter 2026 bookings growth of 48% quarter over quarter and ARR at or near $100 million for several months.
量子位（原生 RSS） · 🔥 0 - OpenAI’s robot hiring signals a hardware push beyond “just the brain”
OpenAI’s careers page reportedly listed 27 robotics-related positions in San Francisco in October 2026, including four dedicated to actuator design and one to actuator technical program management. TMTPost also reported that OpenAI OpCo LLC leased a 202,000-square-foot Richmond warehouse with power capacity exceeding 14,000 amperes, though the report does not establish how the site will be used. The listings concern open roles rather than 27 completed hires, and no production target or shipping schedule was disclosed.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Modal raises $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation as run rate tops $1B
Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, led by Accel with Kleiner Perkins joining and existing investors including Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners and Bain Capital Ventures participating. The company said it has crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate, with usage tripling in the five months since its Series C and growth of more than 15x year-over-year. Modal says it built its own file system, container runtime, scheduler and networking on capacity drawn from more than 20 cloud providers, and that its Sandboxes product, which lets AI agents run code in isolated environments, alone reaches a $300 million run rate with close to 3 billion sandboxes started since 2023.
Modal Blog · 🔥 0 - Xieyue Intelligence raises angel+ round for home embodied AI, starting in care homes
Xieyue Intelligence announced on September 12 that it closed an angel+ round worth several hundred million yuan, according to an authorized article published by TMTPost; the company says the money will go toward its embodied foundation models, compute and data infrastructure, and home robot hardware. Founded in February 2026 by former Li Auto AI chief scientist Chen Wei and former product-line president Zhang Xiao, the company describes itself as an embodied foundation model firm with the home as its first market, but plans to first validate model generalization, task completion rates and unit economics in semi-structured spaces such as hotels and nursing homes before moving into ordinary households, starting with laundry, tidying and cleaning. The article also notes that Fourier Intelligence, Rushan Robot, UBTECH and AgiBot are using care facilities for deployment or data validation.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Astribot raises RMB 1B at RMB 15B valuation, its fourth round in six months
Astribot (星尘智能), a Shenzhen embodied-AI company, announced on Oct 13 a new RMB 1 billion funding round at a post-money valuation of RMB 15 billion, led by Shenzhen state-owned SDIC Donghai, with Hongtai Fund, the Guanghua Sunshine-managed Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund and Shanheng Capital participating and existing investor Xianmu following on. The company said the proceeds will go to model iteration, hiring, commercialization and production capacity. Astribot says it achieved mass production of rope-driven AI robots in June 2025, that combined S- and T-line capacity has reached the ten-thousand-unit level, and that its Lumo-2 model ranked first across more than 22 real-robot evaluations — tests the company ran itself. It was the company's fourth round in about six months, with the valuation rising from RMB 10 billion to RMB 15 billion in three months.
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