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Crunchbase Data Shows Q3 Robotics Startup Funding Jumps 185% As US And China Lead Physical AI Push
Venture funding to robotics startups has soared in 2026, with the bulk of investment going to companies based in China and the U.S., Crunchbase data shows. All told, global venture funding to robotics startups totaled $9.9 billion in Q3, more than double the $4.3 billion invested in Q3 2025, per Crunchbase data.
Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves, what happened during the previous shift, and when an apparently minor…
Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, but trails frontier models on agentic coding.
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Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a 256K context window and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit.
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Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB
UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of seconds-level search.
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How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak
With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence into customer defenses faster.
