Skild AI

Everyone should be watching this company Skild AI and not just because it’s valuation skyrocketed to a $14B in something like seven months! An omni-bodied brain for all robots is a true game-changer. This is the kind of platform shift that will ripple across every industry. With proud Carnegie Mellon University roots! #CMU #RoboticsInstitute

Skild AI's Abhinav Gupta from this week's Automated newsletter. Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/ejtMtUgy Skild AI hasn’t taken the easy road. Abhinav Gupta acknowledges that generalized AI will be a significantly harder nut to crack than bespoke models tailored to different robot embodiments.  Ultimately, however, the startup’s cofounder and president doesn’t believe there’s much choice with this particular question. “Learning a common model across different form factors is a necessity,” he explains. “This is the only way we believe that this problem is going to get solved.” Gupta has been steeped in questions about robot intelligence for much longer than most of the industry. In addition to research stints with Meta, Google, and the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), he’s served as a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute for more than 16 years. With papers published on topics like reinforcement learning, grasping, and navigation, he’s well aware that there are still plenty of challenges ahead. While a one-size-fits-all robot model isn’t exactly industry consensus, a growing number of startups are banking on such a generalized approach.   The notion of a one-size-fits-all model for robotics isn’t what you would call industry consensus, but a growing number of AI startups are banking on this generalized approach. Gupta cites two primary drivers for his own thinking on the subject. The first comes down to the broader problem of data. One thing everyone in the space seems to agree about is that there just isn’t enough of it. Like, not even close.  

At Skild AI, we’ve raised $1.4B, bringing our valuation to over $14B. We’re on a generational mission, and I’m grateful to be working alongside an exceptional team. Thanks to our investors for the long-term conviction towards our goal of building omni-bodied intelligence. Bloomberg article: https://lnkd.in/g8WZR54q

Skild AI AI CEO Deepak Pathak discusses how the startup is building a robot “brain” that learns from watching humans and practicing itself https://bloom.bg/45bp0vN

Huge congratulations to Deepak Pathak and the entire Skild AI team! Proud to partner with you as you make omni-bodied intelligence a reality.

A landmark moment for Pittsburgh robotics and AI 💥 Skild AI has officially raised $1.4 billion at a valuation exceeding $14 billion, one of the largest private financings in the history of artificial intelligence and robotics. The raise was led by SoftBank Group Corp., with participation from nVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), entities administered by Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive, and 1789 Capital. Strategic investors in the round include Samsung Electronics, LG Technology Ventures, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit Health, and Salesforce Ventures. This milestone reflects what the global market already knows. Pittsburgh is a place where category-defining robotics and AI companies are built. Skild AI’s progress is the direct result of deep technical leadership, world-class research roots, and an ecosystem that has spent decades operating at the frontier of real-world AI and autonomy. Skild AI is tackling one of the hardest problems in technology: building a general-purpose foundation model for robotics that works across environments, tasks, and hardware. The scale of this investment underscores both the ambition of that mission and the credibility of the team executing it. For Pittsburgh, this is not a turning point. It's confirmation. The region continues to produce companies that set the agenda for the future of robotics, physical intelligence, and applied AI at global scale. 🌎 Congratulations to the Skild AI team on a defining achievement for the company and for Pittsburgh’s robotics community. 🦾 🗞️ Crunchbase: https://buff.ly/2LJ2R5J 🗞️ Pittsburgh Business Times: https://buff.ly/IAdvHuz -- Pittsburgh Robotics Network | Innovation Works | Robotics Factory | Allegheny Conference on Community Development | Pittsburgh Region. Next is Now. | Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission | Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development | New Economy Collaborative | Allegheny County Economic Development | City of Pittsburgh

Thrilled to support Skild AI in its generational mission to build a unified, omni-bodied foundation model to control any robot for any task. Deepak Pathak Abhinav Gupta

Congratulations to team Skild AI on $1.4 billion funding round at $14 billion valuation! Last week, on NVIDIA keynote stage, at #CES2026, just before Jensen Huang’s keynote, Deepak Pathak spoke about their value proposition in clear terms. David Vellante John Furrier Shelly Edward Ludlow Jon Fortt Brian J. Baumann

Skild AI AI CEO Deepak Pathak discusses how the startup is building a robot “brain” that learns from watching humans and practicing itself https://bloom.bg/45bp0vN