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Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun launches robotics startup Dulo to design hardware with AI
Sebastian Thrun, an early key figure in Google’s self-driving car project and Waymo, is working on a new robotics startup called Dulo. He mentioned the company during a keynote speech at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco, but said it was not time to describe it in detail and that it remains in stealth mode. A brief page hosted by Stanford says Dulo is developing foundation models for hardware design.
AI & Enterprise
KAIST hosts Discovery Loop\'s Jeff Dean, says human-AI collaboration delivers better results
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said it held a special lecture at the Seoul AI Hub on Aug. 13 with Jeff Dean of Discovery Loop, co-founder and CEO, co-hosted with a national AI research hub. Dean introduced AI’s development over the past 15 years and future research directions, saying more computing, data and larger models improved performance. He said human-AI collaboration can achieve better results than either alone.
AI & Enterprise
Infinity raises $15 million for AI inference software at $100 million valuation
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million in funding at a valuation of $100 million. TechCrunch reported on July 20 that the round included Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic. Infinity is developing software to help AI chips run AI models more easily, with kernel software positioned as a possible replacement for Nvidia CUDA. It aims to build a universal inference library.
