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In today’s AI Report:

• 📈Nvidia Surpasses Apple as the World’s Most Valuable Company

• ⚙️Physical Intelligence Lands $400 Million to Control Robots

• 🪖Meta Open Sources AI Models For U.S. Military Purposes

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• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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NVIDIA

📈Nvidia Surpasses Apple as the World’s Most Valuable Company

On Tuesday, Nvidia’s stock market value reached $3.43 trillion, surpassing Apple to make it the world’s most valuable publicly traded company.

Key Details:

• Nvidia’s stock price rose 2.84% to a record closing high of $139.91. The chip maker’s stock has nearly tripled in value so far this year, underscoring AI’s continuing dominance.

• Tech Giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Tesla rely on Nvidia’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to power AI projects.

• GPUs are specialized computer chips capable of parallel processing (i.e., performing mathematical calculations simultaneously), making them ideal for complex AI applications.

• Despite Nvidia’s dominance with GPUs, the chip maker is also creating developer platforms. For example, Nvidia recently announced “Nvidia AI Blueprint,” which allows developers across industries to build AI agents that analyze images and videos.

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes the next wave of AI developments is digital employees (i.e., “AI Agents”) that revolutionize how companies build, deploy, and refine products or services.

Why It’s Important:

• Analysts estimate Nvidia will generate $32.9 billion or experience an 81.45% increase in revenue within the next year.

• Huang believes in a future where digital employees will become integral to the workforce, transforming how companies operate, innovate, and disrupt.

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PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE

⚙️Physical Intelligence Lands $400 Million to Control Robots

Physical Intelligence, a startup bringing general-purpose AI models into the physical world, recently secured over $400 million at a $2.4 billion valuation to help robots perform any task they want.

Key Details:

• Investors include numerous venture firms and several Tech Giants, including Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

• Physical Intelligence recently released π0 (i.e., “pi-zero”), a general-purpose AI model that enables robots to understand natural language commands.

• Initial demonstrations showcase robots performing complex multi-stage tasks like folding laundry, packing eggs, and bussing tables.

Why It’s Important:

• Today, robots are narrow specialists. For instance, industrial robots are programmed for repetitive motions in choreographed settings, repeatedly “making the same weld in the same spot on an assembly line.”

• Physical Intelligence aims to overcome this specialization barrier by allowing robots to generalize their skills to new situations and learn from the experiences of other robots.

AI IN THE ARMY

🪖Meta Open Sources AI Models For U.S. Military Purposes

Meta will allow government agencies and military contractors to access the company’s AI models for national security applications. This decision highlights an exception to Meta’s policies prohibiting the use of “AI software for military, warfare, and nuclear industries.”

This exception comes shortly after reports of Chinese military experts using Meta’s Llama 2 for “the training of airborne electronic warfare interference strategies.” It’s the first substantial evidence of Chinese military experts “trying to leverage the power of open-source LLMs.”

Meta’s AI models can process vast amounts of data and generate actionable insights that can help streamline complicated national security logistics like tracking terrorist financing networks or strengthening cybersecurity defenses.

For example, Meta’s AI models are being used to analyze aircraft maintenance documents so technicians can accurately diagnose problems and speed up repair times.

“We believe it’s in both America and the wider democratic world’s interest for American open-source AI models to excel and succeed,” explained Meta in a Newsroom release.

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Perplexity AI is seeking $500M at a $9B valuation to challenge Google Search.

• Scalpel AI secures a $4.8M Funding Round to help doctors manage surgical trays.

• Cornerstone AI raises a $5M Seed Round to accelerate AI-powered data cleaning for healthcare.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Trace3 (Irvine, CA): Data and Analytics Intern, Summer 2025

• StoryProtocal (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• Oracle (Santa Clara, CA): Cloud Infrastructure Software Development Intern, Summer 2025

• Genmo (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineer, New College Grad 2025

• Nvidia (Santa Clara, CA): Graphics Architect, Hardware, New College Grad 2025

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