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OpenAI 9 years ago 42
OpenAI released Roboschool, an open-source software for simulating robot behavior. The software integrates with OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. Researchers can now test robot control policies in simulation before deploying them to physical systems.
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18 August 2026
The infrastructure and incentives driving AI development shifted noticeably today. Etched's valuation doubled to $21 billion in a month after Jane Street, a major quantitative trading firm, validated and purchased the startup's custom inference chips—proof that institutional buyers now see alternatives to Nvidia's dominance. The company designed specialized hardware for the two phases of AI inference (prefill and decode), cutting costs while running any frontier model. This matters because inference, not training, will be the economic engine as AI applications proliferate; whoever owns that bottleneck owns the margin.
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