Google Cloud and NVIDIA power microagi's embodied AI ambitions
Robotics deployment company microagi today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate the development of models and robotics capable of understanding and interacting with physical envir... The Munich startup will use Google Cloud's AI stack and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to train robotics models at scale, as CEO Bercan Kilic warns Europe has a narrow window to build sovereign embodied AI infrastructure. Robotics Google Cloud and NVIDIA power microagi's embodied AI ambitions The Munich startup will use Google Cloud's AI stack and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to train robotics models at scale, as CEO Bercan Kilic warns Europe has a narrow window to build sovereign embodied AI infrastructure.
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- Cate Lawrence 22 July Share Send email Copy link Robotics deployment company microagi today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate the development of models and robotics capable of understanding and interacting with physical environments.
As part of the collaboration, microagi will use Google Cloud's advanced AI stack and the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to scale its model training workloads.
- The company operates a unique business model designed to accelerate robotics AI development, including training task-specific models for robotic platforms.
I spoke to Bercan Kilic, CEO and co-founder of Microagi to learn more.
- " Hummingbird Ventures had been tracking the company's progress for several months before reaching out and visiting the team.
- "AI is advancing so rapidly that governments are increasingly likely to treat advanced models and compute as strategic national assets.
If export restrictions become commonplace, countries without sufficient domestic compute infrastructure will struggle to compete.
- "The moment that really hit me was seeing open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models emerge.
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- #Cate Lawrence 22 July Share Send email Copy link Robotics deployment company microagi today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate the development of models and robotics capable of understanding and interacting with physical environments.
- #Five days of fundraising, months of investor interest The news comes a week after the company announced it had raised $55 million in seed funding, the largest seed round in German history.
The Munich startup will use Google Cloud's AI stack and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to train robotics models at scale, as CEO Bercan Kilic warns Europe has a narrow window to build sovereign embodied AI infrastructure. Robotics Google Cloud and NVIDIA power microagi's embodied AI ambitions The Munich startup will use Google Cloud's AI stack and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to train robotics models at scale, as CEO Bercan Kilic warns Europe has a narrow window to build sovereign embodied AI infrastructure. Cate Lawrence 22 July Share Send email Copy link Robotics deployment company microagi today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate the development of models and robotics capable of understanding and interacting with physical environments.
As part of the collaboration, microagi will use Google Cloud's advanced AI stack and the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to scale its model training workloads. microagi's Atlas platform fine-tunes AI models using each customer's operational data, creating robotics systems tailored to specific industrial tasks. The hardware- and model-agnostic platform sits between customers' infrastructure and frontier AI models, avoiding vendor lock-in.
Founded in 2025, the company is headquartered in Munich, with a research hub in Zurich and offices in London and New York. Its business model aims to accelerate robotics AI development by training task-specific models for individual robotic platforms. The company operates a unique business model designed to accelerate robotics AI development, including training task-specific models for robotic platforms.
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