Spirit AI
Beijing embodied AI company building general-purpose VLA robot models and the force-controlled Moz humanoid, with deployments on CATL battery lines.
- Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US
Sereact, the Stuttgart developer of the Cortex robot model, raised US$110 million in a Series B led by Headline on 27 April 2026, citing more than 1 billion production picks and one remote intervention in about 53,000. The money funds Cortex 2.0, which adds a world model to a vision-language-action model, and a first US office in Boston; Zalando later joined, lifting the round to US$116 million.
Mentioned - Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data
Generalist AI introduced GEN-0 on November 4, 2025, a family of embodied foundation models that the company says improves predictably with more physical interaction data. It reported a capacity threshold at 7 billion parameters, models scaled past 10 billion, and a pretraining corpus of more than 270,000 hours growing by over 10,000 hours a week. The findings were published as a company blog post, not a peer-reviewed paper.
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