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Humanoid, a London-based robotics startup, is seeking $200 million in funding from Saudi Aramco at a valuation of around $1 billion. The funding round would value the company at $1bn based on a $200m investment. This investment would establish Humanoid as a major player in the robotics sector backed by significant corporate capital.
Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
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21 July 2026
The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.
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