Instinct Lands $1B to Scale Personal AI
Instinct raised $1B Series C led by Sequoia Capital to scale its personal AI agent technology for everyday tasks.
- Amount
- $1B
- Valuation
- $10B
- Led by
- Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue
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Interview·No. 96Sergey Toshin on Why Mobile Security Breaks at Workflow Fit
Intelligence·Agents & EnterpriseHow Risk Topology Shapes AI System Design
FundingEliseAI Lands $350M to Automate Housing and Healthcare
Funding·Equity FinancingLedgebrook Secures $200M to Expand AI Insurance Platform
Funding·Series C+Valon Lands $150M to Scale Mortgage AI Agents
Funding·Series C+SiMa.ai Closes $150M to Scale Physical AI
Interviews
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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
Tobias Antonsson
On the Constraints Shaping Micro-Robotics
Funding
$7B across 115 verified rounds in October
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Over $97MEfficient Computer Raises Over $97M to Scale AI Compute
$88MVolantis Raises $88M to Enhance AI Inference
$60MMetaview Raises $60M to Expand AI Recruiting Platform
$55MReco Secures $55M to Expand AI Agent Security
$52.5MStuut Closes $52.5M to Automate Order-to-Cash
€37MNamespace Raises €37M to Accelerate Product Development
$40MHadrian Raises $40M to Automate AI Pentesting
More rounds·Oct 8
- $1.575BVoltaGrid Closes $1.575B to Expand Power Generation
- $668MGMI Cloud Lands $668M to Expand Global AI Infrastructure
- $250MAtomic Machines Lands $250M to Scale Micro-Machine Manufacturing
- $250MVinci Lands $250M to Expand AI Engineering Platform
- $200MPaleBlueDot AI Lands $200M to Scale Enterprise AI Compute
- $150MSupabase Secures $150M to Scale Agentic Databases
- $140MQuartermaster Lands $140M to Build Ocean Data Network
- $100MParallel Systems Lands $100M to Scale Autonomous Freight Rail
Intelligence
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AgiBot-backed Qiyuan prices home humanoids at about $3,000
Humanoids have so far sold mainly to labs and schools, which bought 73.6% of Unitree's humanoid revenue in the first three quarters of 2025. - Models & Infrastructure
StepFun releases 600-billion-parameter Step 5 Preview model
The sparse model ranks among the top open models on the Artificial Analysis index and is due to be open-sourced on Oct. 15. - Models & Infrastructure
DeepSeek details system running 3 million daily agent sandboxes
Every reinforcement-learning sandbox from V3.2 to V4.1 ran on DSec, which a paper co-authored with Tsinghua University now describes. - Physical AI
MiFeng pays people to record chores for robot training
Training data gathered by teleoperating real robots is limited by how many robots and operators there are.
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