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Chipmaker expanding into compute for robotics, simulation and physical AI.
- Eni offers Italy's Generative Bionics its plants, polymers and supercomputers in a humanoid robot pact
Eni signed a memorandum of understanding with Genoa start-up Generative Bionics on 30 September 2026 to test the GENE.01 humanoid in inspection and remote assistance and to study producing, testing and recycling the robots' batteries at Eni sites. Chemicals arm Versalis and its subsidiary Finproject will work on the robot's feet, and Eni will assess opening its high-performance computing to Physical AI training. No financial terms were disclosed.
investor - General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
General Intuition, which trains AI models on action-labelled gameplay clips from the Medal platform, said on 29 September 2026 that it had raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation from investors including Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The figure is 2.7 times the $2.3 billion it disclosed with its Series A 96 days earlier, and the company has opened a waitlist for partners in robotics, simulation and games.
Mentioned - AMD pays about $8.2B in stock for World Labs, 2026's priciest robotics and physical-AI deal, for a lab with no disclosed revenue
AMD will buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in shares, the largest robotics or physical-AI acquisition value in MEKAWIRE's 2026 records and about 1.5 times the enterprise value SoftBank agreed for ABB's whole robot division. AMD frames it as model expertise for its chip roadmap, not a robot product.
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