foundation-models

Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and SK jointly invested in Config's $27M seed round to build neutral training-data infrastructure for robotic foundation models.

Tencent's Hunyuan team released HY-World 2.0 on April 16, an open-source multi-modal foundation model that converts text or images into editable 3D assets importable into Unity, Unreal, and Isaac Sim — a sharp break from video-only world models like Google's Genie 3.

Physical Intelligence released π0.7, a generalist robot model that lifts air fryer task success from 5 to 95 percent through plain-language coaching and matches specialist RL models on laundry, espresso, and box assembly.

Skild AI has bought Zebra Technologies' robotics automation unit, combining its hardware-agnostic Skild Brain with Zebra's Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform to pursue a unified software layer for warehouses.

New York startup Augmented Intelligence Inc. begins general availability of Apollo-1, a foundation model that fuses neural language generation with symbolic reasoning to deliver deterministic, policy-compliant conversational agents already deployed at Fortune 500 companies.

Agile Robots will integrate Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models into its industrial platform, joining Boston Dynamics and Apptronik in a growing ecosystem play.