French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

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Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

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Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics’ data backbone.
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google’s domain.
Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West.