@dchaplot: The physical world is the next frontier for AI. Watney has an exceptional team tackling a key bottleneck to AI progress…
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Watney Robotics has raised $80 million in Series A funding to address data center deployment as a key bottleneck for AI progress, with total funding exceeding $100 million.
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The physical world is the next frontier for AI. Watney has an exceptional team tackling a key bottleneck to AI progress: data center deployment. Glad to support them and excited for what’s ahead.
Watney (@watneyrobotics): We’ve raised $80 million in Series A funding, co-led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, with continued participation from Conviction, Abstract, A*, and Grant Gordon. This brings our total raised to over $100 million.
We started Watney by asking a simple
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