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.@spacemaker_ai was just acquired by @autodesk for $240M. Last year, we invested in their Series A and Hårvard and his team grew this product-led company into a world-class software for architects. Construction is Eating Software. Or the other way round. A thread.
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We have 999,995 more robots to deploy, and we’re very happy to have @animesh_garg join us, after months of collaboration, to help turn this into reality.
We’re excited to welcome @animesh_garg as our new Chief Research Officer at @microagi, with the team from @usablerobots joining him.
He has spent most of his career working on one of the hardest problems in robotics: getting robots out of the lab and into the real world.
Frontier AI now works. Hardware is becoming cheap. And the industry is finally learning how to collect robot data at scale.
What’s still missing is post-training.
Taking a general-purpose model and teaching it one specific job, in one specific environment, until a company can actually depend on it.
In LLMs, post-training is what turned impressive demos into products. In robotics, that layer barely exists yet.
A strong model is a capability. A robot that can perform the same job, on the same line, every shift, without an engineer standing next to it, is a product.
And that process has to happen again for every task, every site, and every customer.
We believe the company that can do this well, fast, and at scale will be the company that puts robots into production at massive scale.
MicroAGI is building both sides of that system.
With @joinshift, we’re building one of the most diverse and largest egocentric datasets in the world.
With Atlas, we post-train and harness models directly on enterprise deployments.
Our goal is simple:
Deploy 1 million robots.
We’re excited to welcome @animesh_garg as our new Chief Research Officer at @microagi, with the team from @usablerobots joining him.
He has spent most of his career working on one of the hardest problems in robotics: getting robots out of the lab and into the real world.
Frontier AI now works. Hardware is becoming cheap. And the industry is finally learning how to collect robot data at scale.
What’s still missing is post-training.
Taking a general-purpose model and teaching it one specific job, in one specific environment, until a company can actually depend on it.
In LLMs, post-training is what turned impressive demos into products. In robotics, that layer barely exists yet.
A strong model is a capability. A robot that can perform the same job, on the same line, every shift, without an engineer standing next to it, is a product.
And that process has to happen again for every task, every site, and every customer.
We believe the company that can do this well, fast, and at scale will be the company that puts robots into production at massive scale.
MicroAGI is building both sides of that system.
With @joinshift, we’re building one of the most diverse and largest egocentric datasets in the world.
With Atlas, we post-train and harness models directly on enterprise deployments.
Our goal is simple:
Deploy 1 million robots.
Michiel Kotting retweeted
A great first step toward making large-scale mobile manipulation deployments possible; well done to our Zurich lab for the breakthrough!
The best non-hardware-bound SLAM on earth to our knowledge.
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Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
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Today, we are launching shift. Starting in NYC, we are bridging the economy of today into the AI economy where all services, goods, and leisure will be affordable, and humanity will progress towards abundance. Please enjoy your free home cleaning and join shift for a lot more!
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FLUX.2 is here - our most capable image generation & editing model to date.
Multi-reference. 4MP. Production-ready. Open weights.
Into the new.
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Over the past months I’ve increasingly encountered questions about “Europe’s decline in tech”. I wanted to share my response to these questions here. While I am realistic about Europe's modest past success, and that there are no trillion dollar companies, I am optimistic about its future. In fact, I "put my money where my mouth is" and chose to bet my career on it – I have been doing venture on the continent for over a decade instead of moving to Silicon Valley.
Here are some of my thoughts on the topic.
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We are excited to release FLUX1.1 [pro], our most advanced and efficient model yet, alongside the general availability of the beta BFL API.
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I’m really proud to announce that we've raised $25 million today, led by @pluralplatform and @HummingbirdVC, with participation from @northzoneVC, @foundamental, and @nphardvc.
Thanks to @FortuneMagazine and @jeremyakahn for covering our journey so far: fortune.com/2024/02/15/brick…
big step at @fiberplane - read all about it here!
I'm very excited to announce that we've open-sourced our plugin system and development kit built in #rustlang and compiled to #wasm; Fiberplane Providers. Read the blog post here: fiberplane.com/blog/opensour…
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🎙️ At @SlushHQ last year, @MKotting had a great discussion on panel about impact in startups, alongside @willemijnSE from Rubio Impact Ventures and @emmalehi from @SwappieSuomi.
👀 Watch a snippet below or the full video in the link 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=-jGiS9m4…
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👀 We’re hiring! As part of Northzone’s continuous growth, we are excited to expand our investment team in London with a new Associate. Your profile doesn’t look like the norm? Be our guest.
Learn more about the role and how to apply here 👉
northzone.com/2023/01/26/wer…
great to be working with you @SanjotMalhi !
🙌 We’re delighted to announce a new addition to our partnership, @SanjotMalhi, focusing on Growth. He will work with our teams across geographies to identify the best later-stage investment opportunities across sectors.
Read more below 👇
northzone.com/2023/01/19/mee…
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This year marked the abrupt end of record-breaking investments. What now?
trib.al/LOtI7C7
Very exciting!
We've just launched @fiberplane our collaborative notebook platform for infrastructure debugging on @producthunt 📒 Please support us: producthunt.com/posts/fiberp…
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As the tech market slows down, term sheets are changing. Lawyers say investors are now looking for more downside protection. sifted.eu/articles/term-shee…
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📉Stocks went through a bumpy road and the macroeconomic crisis worsens. Companies are rightly so, wary of how they use their money. The effects are proven in fundraising, but what else has been turned upside down?
@mkotting discusses it on @Siftedeu 👇
sifted.eu/articles/term-shee…
Thank you to all our founders for making this possible
European VC @northzoneVC has raised its biggest ever fund — of €1bn.
I sat down with some of the partners to chat FOMO, debt and what on earth went on in 2021.
sifted.eu/articles/northzone…
Great team, working on a BIG idea: super excited to announce our investment in @Idoven_ai - with the potential to change all of our lives sifted.eu/articles/insight-n…
Michiel Kotting retweeted
We're thrilled to partner with @Idoven_ai & co-lead their $12.9M Series A alongside @insightpartners as they redefine detection and prevention medicine of cardiovascular diseases with #AI 👋 Welcome to the Northzone Family, @Dr_ManuelMarina & team! northzone.com/2022/06/21/our…













