Forbes: This $1.5 Billion AI Company Is Building A ‘General Purpose Brain’ For Robots
“Founded in May 2023 by Abhinav Gupta and Deepak Pathak, two former Carnegie Mellon University professors, Skild AI has created a foundational model for what it describes as a “general purpose brain” that can be slotted into a variety of robots, enabling them to do things like climbing steep slopes, walking over objects obstructing its path and identifying and picking up items.
The company announced Tuesday it has raised $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures, Softbank, Coatue and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with participation from CRV, Felicis Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Amazon, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, SV Angel and CMU.”