China’s Psibot hits a $1.48bn valuation betting on ‘world models’
23-07-2026 15:50 via thenextweb.com

China’s Psibot hits a $1.48bn valuation betting on ‘world models’

Viktor Wang has a favourite piece of history. In 2019, OpenAI’s GPT-2 showed that a machine trained on nothing but internet text could write like a person. It was crude, but it was a hinge. Wang thinks robots are about to have the same moment. He is raising money to be there when they do. […]
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