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After touring Unitree’s headquarters and factories, Alvin Graylin said research and demonstrations still dominate its robot purchases, while upper-torso models are finding more commercial demand. His argument is about engineering economics: repetitive work may need capable arms, but not the balancing, repairs and extra parts that come with legs.
Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed want deployed AI to change its underlying weights from individual experience, rather than rely on extra context or shared model updates. Their Oak Lab agenda combines learning rates tailored to each weight with a way to refresh a network’s capacity to learn—supported by earlier experiments, but not yet a demonstrated general-purpose system.
Ramez Naam passed on Panthalassa’s early Bitcoin-mining pitch, then invested twice in 2026 at much higher valuations. The company now proposes wave-powered AI computing, cooled by seawater and connected by satellite. Its $140 million Series B is intended to support an Oregon pilot factory and northern-Pacific pilots; cheap electricity and longer-lived chips remain prospective benefits.