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Insider Brief X Square Robot has raised nearly $276 million USD in a Series B round led by Xiaomi’s strategic investment arm, as the embodied AI startup looks to bring general-purpose robots into the home, according to China Daily. The company, backed by Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan, said it is preparing to deploy a new […]
Read full articleAlibaba's integration of Qwen AI with Taobao could redefine e-commerce by streamlining autonomous shopping, potentially reshaping consumer habits. The post Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao to launch agentic shopping appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Beijing-based Moonshot AI has raised approximately $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, led by Meituan’s venture arm Long-Z Investments, with participation from Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile, and CPE Yuanfeng. The round brings total fundraising over the past six months to $3.9 billion, with the company’s valuation having risen from $4.3 billion at end-2025 to […]
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first venture capital round at a valuation that has climbed from $20 billion to $45 billion in weeks, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg. The round is expected to be led by China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, with cloud giants Tencent and Alibaba […]
Insider Brief Lunar Outpost announced raising $30 million to expand production of lunar robotics and mobility systems. The Series B funding round was led by Industrious Ventures, with participation from Type One Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Promus Ventures and Reliable Equity, according to the company. The Colorado-based company develops robotic vehicles, mobility systems and infrastructure technologies […]
Insider Brief Spirit AI and Bosch China announced a strategic partnership focused on bringing embodied AI systems into industrial environments, combining Spirit AI’s robotics foundation models with Bosch’s manufacturing and automation infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership is aimed at accelerating deployment of what Spirit AI describes as a “universal brain” for robots — […]
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 6, 2026 — DeepInfra, a purpose-built cloud platform for high-throughput AI inference, has announced $107 million in Series B funding to scale its inference cloud and […] The post DeepInfra Closes $107M Series B to Power Production-Scale AI Inference appeared first on AIwire.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE—Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company, has announced $140 million in Series B financing led by Peter Thiel, with participation from new investors John Doerr, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Max Levchin’s SciFi Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Hanwha Asset Management (USA)’s venture fund, Anthony Pratt, Fortescue Ventures, Future Positive, WTI, Nimble […]
An egocentric dataset is a structured collection of first-person video and sensor recordings — captured from a head, chest, or wrist-mounted camera — used to train robotics and embodied AI systems on how people see, move, and act. It’s the closest match to what a robot’s onboard camera will see during operation, which is why […]
