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- LiberAI reportedly raised over RMB 1 billion in six rounds
36Kr, citing China VC, reports that physical-world-model startup LiberAI completed six funding rounds in under a year, raising more than RMB 1 billion and reaching a valuation in the billions of renminbi. Founded in December 2025, the company was established by Tsinghua doctoral student Liu Songming and developed the RDT-1B and RDT-2 embodied-AI models. The report also describes a broader funding wave involving Tsinghua-linked post-2000 founders, including those associated with LatentVerse, OriginFlow and Zero-Fang Robotics.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0 - Physical Intelligence reportedly weighs $1B+ round at $20B valuation
Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise at least $1 billion at a valuation of roughly $20 billion. Existing backers Avenir and Lux Capital are reportedly considering leading the round, while the company’s earlier valuation was $11.5 billion and it reportedly had no revenue at the time of the talks. The Next Web said it had not independently verified the report.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0 - Formic Raises $50 Million for General-Purpose Factory Robots
Chicago-based Formic raised $50 million, according to Axios, which reported that the financing included a $40 million Series B and $10 million in asset-backed financing. The Next Web said the money combines a Mercato Partners-led Series B with debt financing from S2G Investments, but noted that Formic did not disclose how the total was split between equity and debt. The financing will support Formic’s move toward general-purpose robots for a wider range of factory work. Formic is also working with Physical Intelligence to adapt the company’s robot foundation models for factory use. Under Formic’s Robot-as-a-Service model, customers pay one monthly fee covering the robots, software, maintenance and financing, with no upfront cost.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - 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 - 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 - Unitree CEO forecasts GPT-7 could transform embodied intelligence
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing said OpenAI's GPT-7 could directly address embodied-intelligence problems when it arrives next year, and he now expects a possible industry turning point within one or two years. He proposed robots completing 80% of assigned tasks in 80% of unfamiliar environments through voice or text as a maturity benchmark. TechRadar also reported a Stanford Movement Lab experiment combining a Unitree robot with GPT-6 Astra, while later analyses noted persistent limits in physical interaction, reliability, execution speed, and cost.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - Physical AI funding tops $48B in 2026, beating all of last year
Citing PitchBook data, the Financial Times reports that robotics and physical AI companies had raised nearly $48 billion globally by October 8, 2026 — roughly 1.7 times the whole of last year. Capital is concentrating in leaders: Anduril raised $5 billion in May at a $61 billion valuation, NEURA Robotics announced a C round of up to $1.4 billion in June, Skild AI raised $1.4 billion led by SoftBank in January, and Physical Intelligence raised $1 billion in the second quarter. Robot training data is also becoming its own industry: Figure's Index program has collected over 16 million videos and paid out $15 million, Dyna Robotics says its Dyna-2 model, pretrained on more than 1 million hours of human video, lifted average performance across 14 real tasks from 20% to 53%, and Skild AI reported annual recurring revenue above $100 million about 10 months after its first commercial deployment.
量子位（原生 RSS） · 🔥 0 - Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raises $62M, expands Physical Intelligence deal
Fortune reports that warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed round and a $50M Series A, totaling $62M. The company also expanded its deal with Physical Intelligence, which will supply AI software for its robots. Investors, valuation and deal terms were not disclosed in the available report.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - Aether AI demos CRIS-0 causal robot system that adapts to disruptions
Aether AI, a startup focused on causal intelligence, demonstrated CRIS-0, a robot intelligence system centered on task-relevant state that coordinates its in-house causal world model, action policy and verification tools so a robot can decide whether to continue, retry or roll back after conditions change. The demos span robustness to disturbances, long-horizon tasks and personalized interaction; the company says the system identifies environmental changes and replans within about 2 seconds on average, recovered in 9 of 10 disturbance trials, and halts within 0.2 seconds when a hand approaches a microwave door it is closing. The company had previously introduced CausalWM, an embodied causal world model, with the new demo emphasizing how the world model and causal agent work together around task state.
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