OpenAI Breaks Free from Microsoft Bonds

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OpenAI just stripped Microsoft's exclusive license, and they uncapped their enterprise business, and Microsoft's stock is paying for it ahead of Wednesday's earning call. But before that, the AlphaGo guy raised one point one billion dollars to skip LLMs entirely. Elon Musk and Sam Altman have both walked into a courtroom in Oakland together, and a German robotics startup has convinced BMW and PepsiCo that robots should think before they act. All right, first up, we have a Stuttgart-based startup called SecAct. They just raised a hundred and ten million dollars in a Series B round of funding to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they actually move. This whole round was led by Headline, and they also had some participation from BullHound, uh, Daphne, they had Felix Capital, and then I think a bunch of their existing backers like Air Street and Credo. They announced Sunday, and the money funds two things in particular. Number one, they're opening a Boston office, and they're scaling their Cortex two point O, which they're calling kind of their robot brain. This is what's interesting specifically about Cortox-- or Cortex two point O. It bolts a world model onto a vision language action stack. So basically, all of the robots that we have today, the AI can just see things, and then it picks. Cortex two is going to think first before it sees and, and makes an action. It runs possible actions through a learning model of physics and object behavior. So, you know, it's like looking at a stack of books, and it's like, "If I