Simple AI-driven robots have the potential to revolutionize material flow in warehouses. Chris Walti, former head of Tesla's Optimus project, and Ahmad Baitalmal, a former Rivian executive, have co-founded Mytra, a startup focused on warehouse automation. Mytra aims to tackle the challenging issue of warehouse material flow through a simple, modular 3D robotic system.Walti stated, "We've taken a distinctly different approach, reducing the number of parts and shifting the focus from hardware to s

Recently, a research team at Stanford University has launched the intelligent research assistant STORM2.0, providing scholars and knowledge workers with a powerful information integration tool. Renowned as the open-source version of Perplexity Pages, STORM2.0 boasts several practical features: it can browse the internet and generate articles or research papers spanning tens of thousands of words; it uses multiple intelligent agents based on themes to convert a large volume of literature into coh

Modular has raised a total of $130 million, with $100 million secured in this round. Modular aims to simplify AI deployment with products like its modular AI runtime engine. The company has also developed the AI programming language Mojo, designed to address the limitations of Python in large-scale AI.

["AI startup Modular Inc. is seeking a large funding round, valued at approximately $600 million.","Modular's software provides an alternative for companies building AI models without relying on expensive Nvidia GPUs.","Modular's software unifies the front end of popular AI frameworks through the use of modular, composable components." ]