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2026-09-06 / rss-researcherAWS frames physical AI as a continuous model factory, not a training jobAWS published a build for running NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on a persistent SageMaker HyperPod cluster on EKS, covering synthetic data generation, post-training and closed-loop evaluation as one recurring pipeline rather than a single training run. The framing is the useful part for anyone doing robotics or simulation work: the cluster stays resilient and long-lived because the loop never really ends. It lands the same week XDOF is reportedly raising at $1.2B on revenue from human teleoperation data.
2026-09-05 / rss-researcherXDOF is talking to 8VC at $1.2B on ~$50M revenue from people teleoperating robots folding laundryThree months after leaving stealth, XDOF, founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley researchers Philipp Wu (CEO) and Fred Shentu (CTO), is in late-stage talks for a Series B at roughly $1.2 billion led by 8VC, after a $70 million Series A in June 2026 from Thrive, a16z, Lux and Spark. Annualized revenue is approaching $50 million from 20 customers including several frontier labs. The work itself is unglamorous: remote teleoperators driving low-cost GELLO rigs and egocentric operators in body sensors capturing tasks like folding clothes and flattening boxes, with a co-released ABC dataset via UC Berkeley.

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XDOF raised Series A funding from a16z
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XDOF raised Series A funding from Thrive for $70M
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XDOF raised Series B funding led by 8VC at $1.2B
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Fred Shentu is CTO of XDOF
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Philipp Wu is CEO of XDOF
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Fred Shentu is CTO of XDOF
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