Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Eric Trump-Backed Humanoid Startup Says It Is Preparing Robots for Combat

Eric Trump-backed Foundation Future Industries says its humanoid robot soldier plans include military uses, with new kinetic capabilities due soon.

Google Vids adds AI video avatars and Gemini Omni, letting users create and edit personalized videos faster for work and training.

Roblox launches AI game creation in its mobile app, letting users build games from prompts while addressing quality and discovery concerns.

Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55M for Elorian at a $300M valuation, betting big on visual AI before product launch.

Kimi 3 could match Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 as Moonshot readies its largest open-weight model and new funding push.

AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun rejects AGI hype, betting on world models to power safer robotics and physical AI.

Industrial AI startup Applied Computing raised $20M to scale Orbital, its model for oil and gas plants, backed by KBR and Databricks Ventures.

AI slop movies are being used as marketing stunts, with Fountain 0’s Odysseus: The Fall tied to Nolan’s Odyssey buzz.

Ode is betting enterprise AI services will become a major category, using embedded engineers to turn pilots into production.

Thinking Machines launches an open-weight model, Inkling, to push enterprise AI customization over one-size-fits-all chatbots.