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[bloomagik @trybloomagik]

With the launch of bloomagik getting closer, we’ve put some of our thinking and vision into a series of articles.

Here’s dose one:

The Age of Immersion 🧙‍♂️ https://t.co/oxbOKNc71O

[Atlas @atlasmotion]

Introducing Atlas

We're building motion systems for drones, robots, and autonomous machines.

Our work is in service of our customers who work factory floors, tend farmland, move medicine, and defend our country.

Atlas is built to supply them quickly, and supply them in volume. Their progress should no longer be held back by a motor or actuator.

[mimic @mimicrobotics]

Introducing FLUX-mimic, a next-generation Video-Action Model for general purpose dexterity, developed in partnership with @bfl_ai.

Late last year we published mimic-video and introduced Video-Action Models (VAM): a new family of robotics foundation models built on top of video generation models. We showed that robot control reduces to visual prediction, and that robot capability is downstream of improvements in video modeling accuracy. The obvious implication was that advances in the video modeling frontier would directly translate to increased capabilities in end-to-end robot learning.

FLUX-mimic is that thesis at frontier scale: We've applied our VAM architecture to the strongest video backbone available today, FLUX 3 from Black Forest Labs, and trained it on data from our own robots and wearables. General-purpose dexterity, running on a single GPU on premises.

Because the model already understands world dynamics, it needs far fewer demonstrations to learn a new task. This is game-changing for our mission to deploy robots to factory floors, where industrial robot data is scarce and expensive to collect.

We're now testing and deploying FLUX-mimic with manufacturing leaders like @Audi, on complex, multi-step manipulation long considered impossible for conventional automation.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Went off the coast of California with a fish killing robot from @ShinkeiSystems yesterday.

The robot kills the fish using the Japanese Ikejime technique where the brain is spiked and the gills are slit to bleed the fish. It all sounds a bit rough, but it's this versus the fish suffocating on deck for hours and being stressed.

The result of the Ikejime process is much higher grade fish. Also we saw whales.

[delian @zebulgar]

https://t.co/nF604EZ5x1

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised more than $935M in Series A funding with a $520M Series A-X extension round, bringing our total capital raised to nearly $1B.

This milestone is a powerful vote of confidence in our mission: building AI-powered humanoid robots designed to work alongside humans.

With this new funding, we’ll be able to:
- Ramp production of #Apollo
- Expand global commercial and pilot deployments
- Build next-generation facilities for robot training and data collection
- Accelerate real-world impact across manufacturing, logistics, and beyond

We’re proud to be backed by an incredible group of repeat and new investors, including @BCapitalGroup, @Google, @MercedesBenz, @ATT Ventures, @JohnDeere, QIA, and more.

The future of embodied #AI is happening now, and Apollo is just the beginning.

- Read the full announcement: https://t.co/uwiAFxivhX
- Explore open roles: https://t.co/xmGrG9IyBS

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

America is the greatest country in the world.

But we need more founders working on real problems.

If you are in the early stages of building something that matters, you have to be in El Segundo.🇺🇸

Apply to the Spring Cohort in bio. 

Deadline February 20th.

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

The W-5 mission landed safely at the Koonibba Test Range operated by @SouthernLaunch. This is the first reentry of Varda’s next-generation satellite bus, which we designed specifically to meet the demands of both long-duration orbital pharmaceutical processing and reentry.

The W-5 flight carried a payload for the U.S. Navy in partnership with @AFResearchLab and was also equipped with a heatshield made in Varda’s El Segundo headquarters from C-PICA, an ablative material that has been used on all the W-series capsules and was originally developed at @NASAAmes Research Center.

Key highlights of the W-5 mission include:
· End-to-End Autonomy: The mission was a successful demonstration of the Varda-built bus in executing orbital maneuvers, concluding in a precise deorbit burn.
· High-Fidelity Recovery: Safe landing and rapid recovery of the customer payload for immediate post-flight analysis saves time and offers customers options for iterative development.
· Hypersonic S&T: The unique aerothermal chemistry of the reentry environment is impossible to fully simulate on the ground, and flight testing is the best way to advance understanding of the reentry environment.

W-5's success reinforces the advantage of building the entire integrated system in-house. By owning the spacecraft, the capsule, and the mission operations end-to-end, we can iterate faster, fly more often, and reliably bring complex manufacturing processes back to Earth.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

https://t.co/G7GNgKIdLx

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Our number one priority: American leadership in the high ground of space. 🇺🇸

- return to the Moon 🌕
- establish an enduring presence 🧑‍🚀
- realize scientific, economic, national security value 🧫
- make investments in nuclear power 🔋
- strengthen the orbital economy 💵
- increase the rate of world-changing scientific discovery 🔬

All of this is laid out in President Trump’s national space policy, and we’re gonna get it done.

[Sergio Gallardo @sgallardo_9]

https://t.co/3x4Yt7QPnO

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

Announcing the launch of W-5. This is Varda’s fourth mission of 2025 and fifth overall. Watch Transporter-15's launch live from SpaceX: https://t.co/S7XHBCbBNT

[Deedy @deedydas]

The most efficient business in the world makes ~$1.1B/yr net income with just 11 employees.

Their founder, Jeff Yan, is a ~30yo ex-HRT International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) gold & silver from Harvard.

It is a decentralized crypto derivatives exchange called Hyperliquid.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

Apply to Fall Cohort now! Applications close soon.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

America's the best country in the world.

But we need more founders working on real problems.

If you're in the early stages of building something that actually matters, you have to be in El Segundo. 🇺🇸

Apply to the Fall Cohort in bio.

Deadline August 31st.

[Discipulus Ventures @DiscipulusVent]

Excited to announce that @ADoricko, founder of @RainmakerCorp, is joining the Discipulus team as a venture partner, alongside his work at Rainmaker.

We’re grateful for his continued support and look forward to working together on upcoming Cohorts.

Get involved with Discipulus at the link in bio!

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

Every billion dollar founder I know dropped off the face of the earth for years.

We built the perfect home for these people.

It’s called HF0.

In our last batch, teams raising after demo day hit an avg valuation of $82M.

Applications for F25 open today.

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

Yesterday we hosted SF's most exclusive demo day.

Only 10 teams, all of them with moonshot visions.

Here's an inside look at the demos: (🧵)

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

elon
“we are headed to a radically different world
ultimately there’ll be tens of billions of humanoid robots and everyone will have their personal one

it unlocks an immense amount of economic potential… potentially we could have an economy 10 times the size of the current economy

sometimes in AI they talk about universal basic income, i think it’s actually going to be universal high income”

[Robin Davids @RobinDavids_]

https://t.co/7aL3Xugvgd