SoftBank negotiates an investment of $ 500 million in Skild aiA software company building a fundamental model for robotics in an evaluation of $ 4 billion, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported.
The two -year -old company raised its first financing cycle of $ 300 million to an evaluation of $ 1.5 billion last July from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue Management.
The company’s AI model can be applied to various types of robots, the founders of the skin Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta told Techcrunch last July. They said that the widespread model can be changed for a specific area and use cases.
The intersection of robotics and AI has experienced significant interest in investors.
In the past year, investors, especially Bezos, increased their funding for robotics companies fueled by AI.
Physical intelligence, a startup that lifted $ 400 million To a pre-money assessment of $ 2 billion in November, another startup claiming to develop “brains” for a wide range of robots. Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital and Thrive Capital led this tour.
Last February, Figure AiA startup building a humanoid robot propelled by AI, raised $ 675 million to an assessment of $ 2.6 billion in Microsoft, Openai Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Jeff Bezos (through shipments de Bezos).
