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Powering the future of robotics in Europe

Google DeepMind 9 June 2026, 14:02

Google DeepMind selected 15 European robotics startups for a three-month accelerator program providing mentorship and access to AI tools and expertise. The program runs for 3 months and includes access to Google's AI stack and Gemini robotics models. Selected companies will receive hands-on support to develop physical AI applications across logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and other sectors.

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Nvidia’s $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is the day’s loudest signal that “open models” are becoming infrastructure. The deal, completed September 2, moves the French-founded platform entirely into US ownership, just as Hugging Face itself reports a library of more than 3 million models and roughly 18 million developers. The question now isn’t whether open-weight tooling works, but who gets paid once it turns into enterprise operations—safety evaluations, deployment pipelines, and inference in production. Nvidia’s play is to sit closer to the workflow than a box of GPUs ever could, and it pairs neatly with new Personal AI Router (PAIR), which aims to spread agentic sub-tasks across your home machines by clustering and redistributing work when nodes drop.

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