Science robotics startup Opentrons raises $40M to standardize laboratory automation (opens siliconangle.com)
Opentrons will use the money to scale its lab robotics, software and data infrastructure.
Context: DeepMind's next-generation Gemini Robotics vision-language-action model landed the same day as AlphaGenome 2, its gene-prediction model.
From SiliconANGLE: Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab, Google DeepMind, Tuesday debuted the next generation of Gemini Robotics, the company’s most capable vision-language-action model to date for creating an “AI brain” for robotics.
Opentrons will use the money to scale its lab robotics, software and data infrastructure.
Kevin Weil, formerly OpenAI's science lead, is building a chemistry contract research organization; TechCrunch says human chemists will train robots for lab tasks.
Google's new API is powered by a new model, Gemini Decision 1, built to answer narrow user questions cost-efficiently rather than broad prompts.
A Google Labs experiment where groups share one space and ask an AI agent to build itineraries, polls and expense splitters; US adults via waitlist.
Google's announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, released the day after Anthropic's Fable 5.2.
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof's first fund targets AI in pharma.