Is this for real 😂 @radbackwards @BerntBornich

I think this will eventually resolve the problem between Anthropic and the US government, but will also help anthropic with immense marketing. But the world will be watchful and try to build sovereign models more aggressively due to unreliable US policies.

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German robotics companies are starting to put Europe on the map for physical AI. FT reports NEURA Robotics has secured $1.4B at a ~$7B valuation for humanoid and cognitive robotics. Backing includes: Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank. According to the release, NEURA wants to scale humanoid robot production capacity from 6,000 units this year to tens of thousands next year, with a longer-term target of producing millions of AI-powered robotic arms and humanoids by 2030. It also reports a >$1B order book for its robots, including humanoids. NEURA is not the only German robotics capital story either. Agile Robots is reportedly in talks to raise around $800M, with SoftBank discussing a $300M contribution, for a business spanning industrial arms, warehouse robots and humanoids. This surfaced June 2. On the defence-autonomy side, Helsing was reported in May to be nearing a $1.2B round at an ~$18B valuation, while Stark was reported last week to be in talks to raise €300M at around €2.5B. The structural reason is not hard to see: Germany has deep industrial automation, automotive supply chains, precision manufacturing and defence rearmament tailwinds.

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Meet Axol: a dual-arm robot designed for teams working with physical AI. Made in America. Axol is for builders who believe robots should work, in the real world, not just staged environments, and that the future of physical AI should be open not closed.

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Holy moly, Anthropic is getting very serious about recursive self-improvement! One word: acceleration. Insane blog article. Tl;dr: •We are close to an AI capable of fully autonomously designing and building its own successor •They stress this isn’t here yet and isn’t inevitable, but could arrive sooner than most institutions are ready for •Anthropic engineers now ship on average 8x as much code per quarter as they did in 2021–2025 •Task length AI can reliably complete is doubling roughly every 4 months (up from every 7 months) •Opus 3 (Mar 2024) handled ~4-minute tasks; Sonnet 3.7 (a year later) ~90-minute tasks; Opus 4.6 (a year after that) 12-hour tasks •SWE-bench went from low single digits to saturated in two years; CORE-bench (research reproduction) went ~20% to saturated in 15 months •METR found Claude Mythos Preview could work “at least” 16 hours, at the top of what they can currently measure •As of May 2026, Claude authored 80% of code merged into Anthropic’s codebase (low single digits before Claude Code launched in Feb 2025) •A March 2026 poll of 130 research staff: median respondent estimated ~4x output with Mythos Preview •One April 2026 example: Claude shipped 800 fixes cutting a class of API errors 1,000x, work an engineer estimated would have taken a human four years •Claude-written code quality: worse than human in late 2025, roughly at parity now, expected to be strictly better within the year •On the hardest open-ended tasks, Claude’s success rate hit 76% in May 2026, up 50 points in six months •Code-speedup test: Opus 4 averaged ~3x speedup (May 2025), Mythos Preview ~52x (April 2026); a skilled human needs 4–8 hours to hit 4x •In an AI-safety research project, Claude agents recovered 97% of a performance gap (vs ~23% for two human researchers in a week), over 800 compute-hours and ~$18K •On picking the better “next step” in research sessions, the best model beat the human choice 51% (Nov 2025, Opus 4.5) rising to 64% (April 2026, Mythos Preview) •Human comparative advantage, for now: research taste and judgment, i.e. choosing which problems matter and when an approach is a dead end Three possible futures •The trend stalls (S-curve), but today’s capabilities still diffuse widely; they consider this least likely •Compounding efficiency gains, with humans still setting direction; 100-person firms doing the work of 10,000 ; they think this is the likely path •Full recursive self-improvement, where AI builds its successors and pace is set by compute; the alignment outcome here is what they’re least certain about

We’re going all in on World Models. Today we’re launching the 1X World Model Lab. The bet is simple: You can’t fine-tune your way to AGI. And you definitely can’t fine-tune your way to robots that can operate in the physical world. General-purpose humanoids need models that understand space, motion, objects, causality, affordances, physics, and action before they ever see a specific task. The frontier is not better VLA wrappers. The frontier is embodied world models. The 1X World Model Lab will focus on large-scale embodied world model pretraining: building the most generalizable foundation model for humanoid robots from the ground up. The next frontier in AI requires scaling: web-scale media egocentric human videos sim dexterous remote operated robot data on-policy NEO data → real-world deployment for robot data collection and RL → abundance of data → physical AI The robot collects data. The model gets better. The robot gets better. Repeat. To lead this, we brought in one of the best for the mission: @_sam_sinha_ , as Head of World Models. Sam was a founding research scientist at Luma AI and has been at the frontier of scaling multimodal generative video models his whole career. If you’re the best in the world at large-scale pretraining, video models, robotics, RL, infra, or data — and you want your models to move atoms, not just pixels — join us. Send background evidence of exceptional ability to: wmlab@1x.tech We’re building the model that makes autonomous labor real.

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🚨Breaking: NVIDIA and Sharpa have just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei—a standardized, open hardware and software reference design for physical AI research. The platform unifies hardware, sensing, and compute into a single out-of-the-box development stack to eliminate fragmented workflows and speed up sim-to-real deployment. The hardware specs: • Body: Unitree H2 Plus full-sized chassis (31 DOF) • Hands: Dual Sharpa Wave dexterous hands (22 DOF per hand) featuring a visuo-tactile array with >1,000 pixels per fingertip and 0.02N sensitivity for complex, contact-rich manipulation. • Brain: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute delivering 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of Blackwell-architecture AI performance. The reference platform comes preloaded with the NVIDIA GR00T 1.7 humanoid model and works natively with Isaac Lab simulation and teleoperation libraries. Timing is everything: This massive partnership drops on the exact day of Unitree’s STAR Market IPO listing hearing in Shanghai, and amidst a proposed U.S. federal procurement ban on Chinese-made unmanned ground vehicles. Shipping is slated to begin in October 2026 to research labs worldwide. x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/…

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🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot. The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions. This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure. The hardware stack is serious: → Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom → Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body → NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory → Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU Alongside this announcement, @UnitreeRobotics also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform. The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment. The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform. ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners. @NVIDIARobotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it. Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins. NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀 Read more here: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/n… ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

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RAI Institute’s Ultra mobility vehicle is showing off advanced new stunts with smooth 360-degree spins, kip jumps, flips, and bunny hops. The AI-powered machine performs sharp turns, mid-air rotations, and clean landings with impressive balance and precision. And this is only the beginning of what the vehicle can achieve.