Executive Summary↑
Capital is moving from broad model development toward specialized agentic execution and radical infrastructure. Sapiom raised $15M to enable AI agents to purchase their own software tools. This marks a shift from AI as a consultant to AI as a buyer, which will eventually strip human friction out of enterprise procurement cycles.
Elon Musk is now looking at orbital data centers to solve the cooling and power constraints currently hitting terrestrial facilities. It's a pragmatic, if extreme, response to a power grid that can't keep up with compute demand. Investors should view this as a clear signal that the hardware bottleneck is the primary risk to AI scaling.
While Meta continues to experiment with consumer video apps, the real value is migrating toward these autonomous transaction layers. The next 18 months will belong to companies that bridge the gap between thinking and doing. Watch for a surge in "agent-ready" APIs as businesses prepare for software that buys itself.
Continue Reading:
- How Google Cloud is helping Team USA elevate their tricks with AI — Google AI
- Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ v... — techcrunch.com
- Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools — techcrunch.com
- Rethinking imitation learning with Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models — Microsoft Research
- Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers — techcrunch.com
Technical Breakthroughs↑
Microsoft Research is challenging the standard way we train AI to mimic human behavior. Most imitation learning relies on behavior cloning, where an agent tries to copy every specific action an expert takes. The new Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDM) approach focuses instead on predicting the outcome first. By decoupling what happens in an environment from the specific motor commands used to get there, researchers can train models on visual data alone.
This shift matters for companies trying to scale robotics without proprietary, high-quality teleoperation datasets. Training an autonomous system usually requires thousands of hours of expensive human-labeled actions. PIDM allows a system to learn from passive video, essentially turning large libraries of existing human footage into a training set. It addresses the common problem of causal confusion, where a model mistakenly thinks a human scratching their nose is a required step for opening a door.
The researchers found this method significantly more stable than previous iterations when the expert data is imperfect. For investors, this signals a move toward more capital-efficient training for physical AI. We're seeing a trend where the bottleneck isn't just compute, but the availability of specific action-state pairs. If Microsoft can prove this works at scale, the value of unlabelled video archives for training general-purpose agents increases immediately.
Continue Reading:
- Rethinking imitation learning with Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models — Microsoft Research
Product Launches↑
Google Cloud is moving into the training center for U.S. Ski & Snowboard as an official partner. By using vision models to analyze athlete movements before the 2026 Winter Olympics, Google wants to show that its infrastructure can handle high-stakes, real-time data. This is a high-profile demonstration for enterprise customers who need precision performance at the edge.
Meta is testing a standalone app called Vibes to house its AI-generated video tools. Mark Zuckerberg usually folds new tech directly into Instagram, so this separate sandbox suggests Meta wants to gauge interest without cluttering its primary feeds. If the app gains traction, these features will likely migrate back to the main platforms quickly.
We're also seeing the start of an economy where software buys other software. Sapiom raised $15M to build the financial infrastructure that allows autonomous AI agents to purchase their own tech tools. This shifts AI from a passive assistant to an active economic participant with its own budget.
Watch this transition toward autonomous spending closely. While Google and Meta focus on consumer video and sports, Sapiom is building the invisible plumbing for a future where bots are the primary customers. This change will eventually force a total rethink of how SaaS companies price and sell their products.
Continue Reading:
- How Google Cloud is helping Team USA elevate their tricks with AI — Google AI
- Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ v... — techcrunch.com
- Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools — techcrunch.com
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