Fly Ventures @FlyVC

Today we announced our initial funding round! Special thanks to Fly Ventures and to co-lead Toyota Ventures. We are excited to be on this path together. Many thanks also to Logos Fund and Sparked Ventures, who participated in the round and provided help and advice. #Robotics

Netlify now runs every tier of Edge Functions as microVMs on our platform! That product handles more than 20 billion requests a month, for customers from startups up to Figma and Riot Games. The number we're proudest of: median per-request overhead dropped from about 50ms to 6ms, more than 8x, while Netlify moved from software isolates to hardware-isolated VMs. Usually you trade isolation for speed. Here they got both. VM startup on Netlify's fleet now runs at 2ms P99: selecting a machine, allocating and booting the VM, and getting the customer's code on disk. The deployment holds 99.998% measured availability, including through traffic spikes of 200x a customer's normal volume. More this week: the case study behind the migration, and the engineering story our team wrote about building it. Link to the full story: unikraft.link/netlify-x

Put out a new Butler's Pantry episode, showing how to use GitButler to run several agents in one working directory with parallel branches. If you use agents and solve parallelism with worktrees, check this out because it's so much nicer.

We just raised an additional $60M led by Insight Partners. With 7,000+ companies hiring on Metaview and $110M in total funding, we’re leading the shift to agentic recruiting. We’ve come a long way but now it’s time to dial things up. 🔥 More agents. A much bigger Metacrew. A new HQ in New York. fillmore available for everyone. And a whole lot more investment in helping people put AI to work and get the right butts in seats. Thank you to our customers and investors who continue to support us: @GVteam, Intrepid Growth Partners, @seedcamp, @vertexventures US, @Plural, and @GarudaVentures. Read more: metaview.ai/resources/blog…

MolmoAct 2, our fully open robotics model, takes the top spot for overall task success on the independent Reality Check benchmark after task-specific fine-tuning. Thanks @Nicolas_Keller for putting MolmoAct 2 to the test and sharing your methods and results with the community. 🚀

Nicolas Keller @Nicolas_Keller

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The Era of Evals is coming to AI robotics. Today we’re launching Reality Check: our leaderboard & first public robot manipulation benchmark. 14,400 real-world rollouts. Four models. Multiple tasks & data regimes. Object placements. Confidence intervals. FR3 Duo stations. 1/10

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@FlyVC is very, very excited to have been on the journey with @tangentrobotics who's now announcing their $4.5M pre-seed alongside @Toyota_Ventures. Performant dexterity is the most pressing and most interesting challenge in robotics today and the Tangent team has spent their entire career focused solely on hand-inspired manipulation. They know more about hands than I know about anything. tangentrobotics.ai/pre-seed-fundi…

Crazy excited about team @pokeandwiggle - 100% agree "We won’t get to physical AGI with cherry-picked demos, fundraising FOMO and pretending this is a zero-sum game. Let’s measure what actually works."

Nicolas Keller @Nicolas_Keller

4 days ago

The Era of Evals is coming to AI robotics. Today we’re launching Reality Check: our leaderboard & first public robot manipulation benchmark. 14,400 real-world rollouts. Four models. Multiple tasks & data regimes. Object placements. Confidence intervals. FR3 Duo stations. 1/10

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Perfect timing too: 9fin has officially launched its Investment Grade offering!

we all know that hiring panic mode feeling. a role without dedicated recruiting support. a pipeline that needs a boost. a hire that needed to be in seat yesterday. sometimes all three. that’s exactly what fillmore is for. work with fillmore like your favorite recruiter in Slack. give fillmore the brief, and fillmore gets to work. ➞ deeply researching candidates ➞ sending personalized outreach ➞ handling follow ups ➞ scheduling screening calls whatever the req, put fillmore on it and get the right butts in seats faster 🍑

Today @wayve_ai and @MercedesBenz are announcing a global strategic partnership! Through this definitive production agreement, we’ll bring our AI Driver to future Mercedes-Benz vehicles starting in the next two years. This is the world's first integration of the Wayve AI Driver in the premium segment and is the third production deal we’ve announced for consumer cars in the last 9 months. It builds on Mercedes’ strategic investment in our Series D and years of technical collaboration between our teams. Mercedes is an iconic company with a strong reputation for automotive innovation and engineering excellence - they built the world's first car in 1886! I couldn’t be prouder to build the future of autonomous driving together. Thank you to the entire Mercedes team. Read more here: wayve.ai/press/wayve-me…

We’re partnering with @MercedesBenz! We’ve signed a definitive production agreement to integrate the Wayve AI Driver into future Mercedes-Benz vehicles, bringing intelligent and scalable driving assistance technology to more consumers. As part of a multi-year technical collaboration, we’ve integrated the AI Driver into the Mercedes-Benz production system architecture using their HW & MB.OS - watch us driving around the world in DE, US, & UK 🌍

🪳Today we're introducing Cockroach Continuum, built for an era when agentic applications are growing database estates faster than any team can manage by hand 🧵👇

We're excited to welcome Elisa de Martel to Wayve as Chief Financial Officer! Elisa will oversee Wayve's global finance organization as we enter the next phase of growth across our automotive and robotaxi businesses. wayve.ai/press/wayve-ap…

Our customer just deployed what we believe is the longest-horizon, fully-automated, mobile-manipulation workflow in production. 12 linked subtasks. Running the night shift at Rectify, a London plastics manufacturer. Built and trained by the customer, using Reimagine. 1/4

Thanks for having us! @alexgkendall spoke with @adrianmacneil at #Actuate26. Check out their full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=ybmZiw…

Foxglove @foxglove

3 weeks ago

ICYMI from #Actuate26: @alexgkendall joined @adrianmacneil to unpack @wayve_ai's contrarian bets on Embodied AI, from end-to-end learning and real-world generalization to what it takes to build an AI platform that can scale across vehicles and markets. Full conversation:

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Congrats to the @odysseyml team on Odyssey-3! The @pokeandwiggle team is so proud to have supported you in extending the model's capabilities to robotic manipulation. Excited to announce a close research collaboration with you guys! ❤️ 1/3

Odyssey @odysseyml

3 weeks ago

Today we’re unveiling Odyssey-3, a big step forward for foundation world models. It can control robots, power humanoids, drive cars (on the roads of India!), train AIs, pilot drones, and even play video games. We can’t wait to see what intelligent systems it enables.

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GitButler is redesigning the version control experience for you and your agents. We're very excited to lead their Series A. In this conversation, GitButler CEO Scott Chacon joins a16z GP Matt Bornstein to discuss: - Why Scott came back to version control after GitHub - Why Git's UI has barely changed since 2005 - How GitButler is building version control designed natively for agentic coding - Why AI makes communication a more valuable skill for developers 00:00 Intro 01:11 Why Scott came back to version control after GitHub 06:18 How Git was actually built 11:32 Designing GitButler's CLI for agents 18:05 Parallel branches: How GitButler handles multi-agent workflows 23:33 What happens to GitHub in an agentic world 27:00 Code review needs a rethink: PRs, commit messages, and what comes next 32:19 Writing and communication as the new developer superpower @chacon @BornsteinMatt

GitButler @gitbutler

6 months ago

We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git blog.gitbutler.com/series-a

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9fin, the debt intelligence provider founded by two former investment banking analysts, has raised fresh funds at a $1.3 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

UK AI start-up Wayve raises $1.2bn from carmakers and Big Tech ft.trib.al/YXQdJzf