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@RespanAI Span-01! 📈🚀
After TypeSafe kicked off the category two weeks ago, there are now 6 decision models on the market, including 2 free models: openrouter.ai/models?output_…
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At ASI, we're building AI systems for the critical industries, from military operations to logistics to energy to managing the airspace. Now the FAA is using this proven capability to roll it out on record timelines. @pbuckendorf
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We built a new kind of robot for the underdogs.
Today, robotics is stuck between ~$100k systems and low-cost robots not meant to survive deployment.
We think builders deserve better. Our mission is to develop the best hardware platform for others to deploy on.
Meet Feather, an affordable general-purpose robot designed for real work:
• 1m reach
• Human strength
• 10-hour battery
• Shipping for the past year + available today
Founded by @whoishoa and Parsa Bakhtiari, Feather is coming out of stealth with $7.6m in pre-seed funding led by @GradientVC, with participation from @BuilderVC, @geometryvc, @SEEDInnov, and Virgo VC.
We’re hiring across engineering, ops, and go-to-market. If you’re an absolute maverick, join our cause today – feather.dev
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1/ Congratulations to the @featherrobotics team on emerging from stealth and announcing their $7.6M seed round led by @GradientVC!
We're excited to partner with Hoa and Parsa on their mission to build the Android of Robotics.
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Congrats @featherrobotics! 🦾
Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.
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We've reached a big milestone as one of the fastest growing wealth advisors in the country: Range has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management.
This is a huge checkpoint, but just the beginning of our journey as we scale to serve millions of households across the country.
A huge thanks to our members, our team of incredible Rangers, our custodial partner @Altruist, and our investors at @scalevp @gradientvc @cathayinnov @expa @redseaventures @53stations and @8bitcapital
We have more exciting announcements coming soon... Stay tuned.
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90% of large enterprises say an hour of downtime costs $300K+. Now picture the outage hitting thousands of AI agents mid-task.
"Restore to yesterday" fails when the gap between last known good and already poisoned is minutes.
The AI-native enterprise needs an undo button. More from @Cdpetty: gradient.com/blog/posts/back…
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The question isn't whether agents can generate code. It's everything around the model. Where the next category-defining coding companies get built, from @denise_teng25
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Our GP @darian314 joined @YahooFinance to break down why Meta selling excess compute makes sense: idle GPU time is monetizable, and inference demand is only going up. "There's never enough supply."
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We're heading to Paris for @RaiseSummit and co-hosting a happy hour with our friends at @periodiclabs, @density_ai, & @kleinerperkins
Join us for a casual happy hour + panel on automating science.
RSVP: luma.com/3d30n76m?utm_source…
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Two Gradient founders on this year's 100 Women in AI list: @may_habib of @Get_Writer and @0xCaitlin of @FazeshiftHQ. Well deserved!
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Huge congrats to the @krea_ai team on cracking the Forbes AI 50!
2026 #ForbesAI50
Artificial intelligence has become part of our lives, increasingly core to how we work, search for information and express ideas. In the last year, the startups spearheading this paradigm shift have raised gobs of money from venture firms to build applications used by hundreds of millions of people across professions like law, software engineering, banking and even music.
Three years into the AI frenzy, startups are starting to prove they can turn lofty ideas into sustainable businesses. That’s evident in Forbes’ eighth annual AI 50 list, which spotlights the most promising privately-held AI companies in the world.
See the list:
forbes.com/lists/ai50/?utm_c…
Illustration by Yoshi Sodeoka for Forbes
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The web was built for humans. AI agents are exposing the limits of that design.
From MFA and CAPTCHAs to session timeouts and impossible travel alerts, much of the internet still assumes the user is a person.
Our latest from @Cdpetty on why web auth is becoming a major bottleneck:
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Prototypes > generic customer discovery.
@denise_teng25 on why design creation agents have unblocked the path from idea to production for founders who can quickly iterate, and why that separates the good from great.
cc: @rhobusiness
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Every AI agent needs to connect to dozens of APIs. Auth, syncs, retries, rate limits, all of it, for every provider. It's the most time-consuming engineering work in AI right now and it doesn't scale. @NangoHQ built the open-source runtime to fix it.
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