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Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round

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Munich robotics startup Microagi raised $55 million in Germany's largest seed round to develop humanoid robots trained on factory and household task data. The funding was led by Hummingbird with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine, coming 10 months after the company's founding by former Formula 1 engineers. Microagi plans to deploy humanoid robots across European manufacturing and household sectors, with the CEO predicting robots capable of performing roughly 10 routine tasks autonomously within one year.

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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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Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round

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