Pigment Lands $250M to Advance AI Capabilities
Pigment raised $250M Series E led by Scaleup Europe Fund to advance its AI capabilities and develop autonomous planning tools.
- Amount
- $250M
- Valuation
- $2.3B
- Led by
- Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT)
AIPressRoom — the AI industry, on the record
Interview·No. 55David Idris on Why Security Breaks at Human Speed
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Interviews
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Chuck Lee
On bringing AI Humans Into Real-World Interaction
Fangzheng Wang
On the Constraints Shaping Hybrid Robotics
Asad Tirmizi
On why Factories Are Moving from Programs to Models
Ryan Saavedra
On why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability
Christian Duriez
On the Constraints Shaping Soft Robotics
Julius Kümmerle
On why Autonomous Driving Still Needs Boundaries
Fabio Bonomo
On why Robotic Hands Break at Durability
Marco Prata
On why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability
Rich Walker
On the Trade-Offs Shaping Robot Dexterity
Sicheng Yang
On why Embodied AI Breaks at the Hand
Funding
$14B across 198 verified rounds in October
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Intelligence
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StepFun releases STEPX Neo agent phone for about $600
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Domain-specific post-training can push an open-source base model past dedicated foundation labs on standard video benchmarks. - Models & Infrastructure
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Local decision weights shift agent routing from proprietary cloud APIs directly onto client machines.
Events
29 in the next 30 days
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Visual Intelligence Summit
- Oct 22
All Day AI
- Oct 22–24
Nutrients 2026
- Oct 26–30
webinale Munich 2026
- Oct 26–30
International PHP Conference Munich 2026
- Oct 26–30
International JavaScript Conference Munich 2026
- Oct 27–29
ODSC AI West 2026
- Oct 28–29
Conversational AI & Customer Experience Summit 2026
- Oct 28
IBBC 2026