AI and technology news summaries from iEnvi, framed for environmental professionals.
🤖 “In just two years, we have gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.”
Those are the words of Artem Sokolov, Chief Executive Officer of Humanoid, celebrating a 152 million USD Series A funding round that values the company at 1.35 billion USD.
🤖 “Access to compute is central to keeping Claude at the frontier and meeting demand from our customers.”
Tom Brown, Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer of Anthropic, outlining the driver behind their new multi-billion-dollar alliance with AMD.
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“This collaboration brings together Anthropic’s leadership in frontier AI with the full strength of AMD high performance computing.”
That is how Dr Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD, characterised the massive new partnership between AMD and Anthropic.
🤖 “In just two years, we have gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.” – Artem Sokolov, CEO of Humanoid.
🤖 “Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done.”
Zia Huque, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab, made this observation following a landmark investment in European robotics.
🤖 “In just two years, we’ve gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn…” – Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO of Humanoid.
🤖 “Vera Rubin is already in production. Giant amounts of production incoming.”
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has shut down rumours of manufacturing delays, confirming that their next-generation NVL72 platform is officially in production.
🤖 “In just two years, we’ve gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.” – Artem Sokolov, CEO of Humanoid. The UK-based startup has secured a US$152 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at US$1.35 billion.
🤖 “These Chinese models are excellent. Open-source models that are excellent should be used.”
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has taken a firm stance on the global technology pipeline, defending the right of Western enterprises to run open-weight models developed in China.
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“We used to call it the second-mover advantage: the ability to distil lessons other companies had to pay millions or billions of dollars to learn.”
This perspective from Sotirios Stasinopoulos, Chief Product Officer at Humanoid, explains how the London-based robotics firm bypassed years of costl