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Robotics · ROBOTICSShihang Intelligence's CEORION Marine Foundation Model Completes CAC Filing for Underwater Operations
Shihang Intelligence announced that its CEORION marine general foundation model has completed filing with the Cyberspace Administration of China. Built on a Language-World-Action Model architecture, the system integrates multimodal sensor data to enable underwater robots to perceive, plan, and execute tasks within a single framework.
Robotics · RESEARCHAlibaba DAMO Academy Introduces RynnUnify, a 16B Unified Embodied Model Pairing 8B Reasoning with 8B Video Generation
On October 23, Alibaba DAMO Academy and Hupan Lab published a paper on RynnUnify, a 16-billion-parameter unified embodied model that uses an 8B reasoning module and an 8B video generator to predict future scene changes and guide sequential robotic actions.
Robotics · INDUSTRYAnthropic Files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO Amid Exponential Growth and $500 Billion Compute Commitments
On October 26, Anthropic filed a 338-page S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the Nasdaq, taking the lead in the IPO race among competing U.S. AI companies.
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