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Chips for frontier AI

AI silicon for recursive self-improvement and superintelligence. XPU chips run inference and training for frontier AI models on a fraction of the energy.

Automation Foundation Models For Tiny Devices

Automation foundation models for mobile, wearables, AR glasses, smart homes, robots, cars, Macs/PCs, game consoles, TVs and microcontrollers. 2-bit, 8-29MB, runs locally, up to 4k tokens/sec.

Humanoid robots

Darwin is building general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work. Our first robot, Darwin One, will learn from real-world experience and continuously improve as AI moves from the screen into the physical world. First deployments begin in early 2027.

Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories

Flux is building physical AI to automate material movement in warehouses and factories on legacy vehicle fleets. Using Flux's solutions customers can reduce their dependency on human drivers, while also increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. Flux is currently deploying with customers like Walmart, Daimle...

Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate

Frontier is first to grow biological brains at scale, serving biological neural nets with substrate-level colocation of memory and compute, enabling highly cost effective training of large parameter count models. While academia has traditionally been limited to ~1M neurons in vitro, Frontier has built a pathway to scal...

IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –…

We're building the brain for the factory floor, developing AI-driven robotic systems powered by a proprietary foundation model for the difficult, contact-rich manufacturing tasks where conventional automation falls short. Founded by veterans of Tesla, Waymo, Ford, and GM who built the systems that brought modern autono...