SoftBank and Nvidia Consider Joining Funding Round for Robotics Firm Skild AI

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    "title": "SoftBank and Nvidia Consider Joining Funding Round for Robotics Firm Skild AI",
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    "excerpt": "SoftBank and Nvidia consider joining funding round for robotics firm Skild AI.\n\nSoftBank Group and Nvidia are reportedly in talks to participate in a more than $1 billion funding round for Skild AI, a maker of foundation models for robots.\n\nThe round, which has not been finalized and could change, could nearly triple Skild's valuation from the $4.7 billion it attained earlier this year to around $14 billion, Reuters reported Monday (Dec. 8), citing a term sheet.\n\nSkild raised $500 million in the Series B round in which it was valued at $4.7 billion, and it raised $300 million in a Series A round that valued it at $1.5 billion last year, according to the report.\n\nWhen announcing its Series A funding round in July 2024, Skild said its model was being designed as a \"shared, general-purpose brain\" for a variety of robots, scenarios and tasks. Unlike those designed for specific applications, it aims to enable the use of low-cost robots for a broad range of industries and applications.\n\n\"With general purpose robots that can safely perform any automated task, in any environment, and with any type of embodiment, we can expand the capabilities of robots, democratize their cost, and support the severely understaffed labor market,\" Abhinav Gupta, president and co-founder of Skild AI, said at the time in a press release.\n\nIn July, Skild introduced an AI model called \"Skild Brain\" and said...",
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