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🚨BUILDERS ATTENTION @togethercompute will give your AI startup free compute and put an engineer on your code. No equity terms listed. Selection-based. Built for teams training, fine-tuning, and serving models. Three tiers by money raised: Build up to $5M raised Up to $15K in credits + 3 hrs of forward-deployed engineering Scale $5M to $10M raised Up to $30K in credits + 6 hrs Grow over $10M raised Up to $50K in credits + 10 hrs Credits cover: Serverless inference Dedicated endpoints Fine-tuning Note: credits don't apply to reserved GPU clusters. What else comes with it: Joint GTM access to 800K+ developers Intros to Together's VC network Invites to partner events No equity terms are listed on the page ask before you sign anything. Apply at together.ai/startup-accelera… Free compute. Real engineer. No equity listed.
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GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5. both AI models through the ultimate bedsheet wind test. 🌬️ Who handles the chaos better? Made with Higgsfield.
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🚨BUILDERS ATTENTION @speedrun SR008 applications are open. a16z's accelerator. 12 weeks in San Francisco. Deadline: November 1. What you get: Up to $1M in investment $10M+ in partner credits 12-week in-person program in SF Demo Day April 13, 2027 Global Founders Program visa, banking, and relocation support included The timeline: Apply by November 1, 11:59 PM PT Residency: February 1 April 18, 2027 Founder retreat kicks off February 2–4 Demo Day: April 13, 2027 Who it's for. Very early-stage founders. The program is built for AI, creative tech, and entertainment but the thesis has widened. Generative AI, creator tooling, and XR hardware founders have all made recent cohorts. Founders can come from anywhere in the world. If you need visa or relocation support to get to SF, they help with that. Apply at speedrun.a16z.com a16z behind you. SF ahead.
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Five AI headlines that dropped in last 24 hours. The capital moving into AI right now is not venture-scale. It's economy-scale. 01. Anthropic files for IPO. Targeting November. Claude's developer filed IPO paperwork with the SEC. First-half 2026 revenue: $16.3 billion. If the listing goes through, it could be one of the largest tech IPOs on record. The AI lab era is entering public markets. 02. Meta plans to raise $95 billion for AI expansion. Stock offerings plus additional share sales all earmarked for AI infrastructure and compute. Meta is not betting on AI. It's financing AI at a scale that changes what the company is. 03. SpaceX locks in a $40 billion GPU financing deal. Apollo-managed entity finances the acquisition of AI chips and server hardware, then leases it back to SpaceX. Elon's compute stack just got a $40 billion underwrite. This is what serious AI infrastructure commitment looks like. 04. Honeywell deploys industrial AI at the world's largest refinery. Forge Plant Cognition launches at the Dangote refinery combining NVIDIA AI, digital twins, and physics-based models to optimize live operations. Estimated annual benefit: $60M+. Industrial AI is no longer a pilot. 05. India puts AI into school curriculum for Classes 9–12. NCERT introduces a 20-hour AI and computational thinking module across secondary education. One of the world's largest school systems just made AI literacy a formal subject. The through-line this week: AI is moving from product to infrastructure in energy, in space, in education, in public markets. The scale changed. Everything else follows.
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🎮 NEW: Higgsfield Playable lets you create a playable mobile game from a single prompt. Start with a gameplay idea, existing assets or just text. Generate a playable game in one click. Enterprise users can also turn games into playable ads. AI is moving from generating content to generating experiences.
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🚨 ANTHROPIC'S IPO FILING REVEALS THE SCALE OF ITS AI BET. $16.29B in H1 revenue. $80.75B reported net loss. ~$245B in future computing commitments. 47% of 2025 revenue through Amazon & Google marketplaces. 50.1% founder voting control. A potential $1.5T valuation. Investors have a lot to examine.
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🚨 OPENAI RELEASES GPT-6.1 TERRA. $1/$5 per million input/output tokens. OpenAI says it matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam at 1/10th the price per token, and delivers ~9× lower task costs than Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort. Terminal-Bench 4.0: 50.3%, up from 21.5%. The focus: capable AI agents at scale. Agents are getting smarter and cheaper. Our excuses for not automating workflows are running out faster than our API budgets.
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Five physical AI headlines from last 24 hours Robots are no longer in labs. They're in logistics facilities, refineries, campuses, and living rooms. 01. @agilityrobotics Digit humanoid expands to two more US warehouses. GXO is deploying Agility Robotics' Digit to facilities in North Carolina and Tennessee. The existing Georgia deployment has already moved 100,000+ totes. Rollout expected early 2027. 02. @Figure_robot AI's humanoid walked 679 km without stopping. Figure 03 completed 13 consecutive days on a treadmill. 1.5 million steps. That's not a demo. That's an endurance test with real implications for deployment durability. 03. @honeywell brings AI agents into refinery operations. Forge Plant Cognition combines AI agents, NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins, vision AI, and physics-based models to help industrial operators optimize live processes. Physical AI entering one of the world's most complex industrial environments. 04. @AlibabaGroup robot dog now patrols its campus. Amap's Tutu quadruped performs inspection rounds, photographs checkpoints, and files evidence directly into work orders via the ABot system. Fully automated security loop. 05. Realbotix launches companion humanoid robots. Echo comes in two versions tabletop at $11,950 and full-body at $59,950. Conversational AI, cameras, microphones, articulated movement. Shipping 2027. The pattern across all five: AI is moving from screen to body. Logistics. Refineries. Campuses. Homes. Physical AI isn't coming. It's deploying.
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🚨 A FLYING CAR DESIGNED TO TAKE OFF FROM YOUR DRIVEWAY? Doroni Aerospace is developing the H1-X, a two-seat electric eVTOL targeting 120 mph speed and up to 100 miles of range. It has eight lift fans and two cruise fans. Flying prototype tests are targeted for 2027, with deliveries from 2028.
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Now Imagine this in a situation Againts you! but don't worry its The Unitree B2 : Firefighting Robot The Unitree B2 is a powerhouse engineered to deliver relentless ground security. Designed for speed and precision, the B2 can achieve speeds of up to 6 meters per second, enabling it to rapidly intercept intruders and monitor extensive perimeters.
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🚨 TESLA BEGINS EARLY OPTIMUS PRODUCTION. The new Fremont manufacturing line is designed for up to 1 million humanoids annually. But the first 10,000–20,000 robots are reportedly headed to Optimus Academy to practise tasks and generate AI training data. Tesla targets customer deliveries by late 2027, starting around $20,000.
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🤖 NEW: NVIDIA demonstrated a sim-to-real robotics workflow using RTX Spark and Hugging Face's Microduck. The robot learned a somersault in simulation before performing it in the physical world. The bigger challenge now: transferring complex robot skills from virtual environments to reality reliably.
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🤖 NEW: NEURA Robotics unveils its 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid, reporting a 20% weight reduction. Its Physical AI stack spans Neuron AI, shared skills through Neuraverse, and a 2,300 m² RoboGym with TUM. With Schaeffler and HD Hyundai Samho among its industrial partners, the focus is shifting from humanoid demos to factory deployment.
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🤖 Physical AI needs more than vision. An egg and a hammer can produce almost the same hand pose but require completely different grip forces. This demo combines computer vision with sEMG wrist sensing to capture muscle activity, coordination and fatigue. The next frontier in robot manipulation is understanding force, not just movement.
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🤖 NEW: RoboJev aims to automate robot task-success evaluation. Instead of humans watching thousands of videos to label outcomes, the 27B-parameter model grades robot data automatically. Reported figures: 48× cheaper and 28× faster than 6 Astra. Open weights could make it even more interesting.
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🤖 Meet Mori: a $649 home robot that won't clean your house, control your smart home or answer every question. Instead, the mushroom-shaped companion from One Kind Artifact uses subtle movements, light, sound and guided breathing to offer a quiet presence. Maybe the future of home robots isn't productivity.
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🤖 NEW: ETH Zurich's Unitree G1 can walk, climb and crawl using a single learned policy. Trained with just 13.2 minutes of human motion data and reinforcement learning, it adapts to terrain without following reference movements. Even its ladder-demo recovery wasn't explicitly demonstrated during training.
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♿ BIG: Toyota's Walk Me robotic mobility chair wins Red Dot: Luminary 2026. The four-legged prototype is designed to climb stairs and help riders enter cars. Its movements were developed using ~10,000 simulations. No commercial release date or price announced.
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🤖 BIG: Figure 04 reaches design lock as Figure reveals a massive AI infrastructure push. 37.5M human-video uploads, $8.1M spent on data in one week, and a $3.5B initial compute commitment with Nscale, with plans to expand to $6B. Figure is building the full Physical AI stack.
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🚨 CYBERSECURITY WARNING: Newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities are reportedly being weaponised rapidly, with Cloudflare observing millions of exploitation attempts. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploit development could accelerate the race between attackers and defenders.
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