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[zymtrace @zymtrace]

@typesafeai achieved 46% higher GPU throughput while training Jev using @zymtrace’s cluster-wide, continuous profiling and agentic optimization platform.

See how they did it in the link below ����

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Bonjour! 🇫🇷 This week I was in France for Paris Motor Show. I met President Macron who described France's ambition for robotaxis.

So we started testing: we haven’t driven in Paris often, making it a generalisation challenge. Check out our AI Driver in Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur!

[Bloomberg @business]

"Every brand needs to be able to compete."

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall tells @TomMackenzieTV that Tesla shows there is demand for self-driving cars, but consumers want to consider other manufacturers https://t.co/Mj8uNl2U21

[Tangent Robotics @tangentrobotics]

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

[felipehuici @felipehuici]

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: https://t.co/7cb34AtLFg

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

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.

[Metaview @MetaviewAI]

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: https://t.co/ZRp993E4xk

[Ai2 @allen_ai]

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. 🚀

[Matt Wichrowski @mattwichrowski]

@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.

https://t.co/ui4YWvutZN

[Fly Ventures @FlyVC]

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]

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.

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[9fin @9finHQ]

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

[Metaview @MetaviewAI]

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 🍑

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

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: https://t.co/LqaMyv0OUs

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

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 🌍

[CockroachDB @CockroachDB]

🪳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 🧵👇

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

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.

https://t.co/QxRSgw3Cer

[Reimagine Robotics @reimaginerobots]

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.

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[Wayve @wayve_ai]

Thanks for having us!

@alexgkendall spoke with @adrianmacneil at #Actuate26. Check out their full conversation here: https://t.co/dLuxaM9xPs

[Nicolas Keller @Nicolas_Keller]

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! ❤️

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[a16z @a16z]

Read more: https://t.co/7NdHiWbKox