Meta's RoboJEPA Finds a Scaling Law; Nous Research Raises $90M
Friday, October 9, 2026 · 8 min
Meta's FAIR lab reports that its RoboJEPA robot world model improves predictably with compute. Nous Research raises $90M at a $1.5B valuation for its open-source Hermes agent, and Liquid AI ships open-weight decision models that answer without generating a single token.
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Meta's FAIR lab reports that its RoboJEPA robot world model improves predictably with compute. Nous Research raises $90M at a $1.5B valuation for its open-source Hermes agent, and Liquid AI ships open-weight decision models that answer without generating a single token.
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- RoboJEPA: Scaling Robotic Latent World Models — arXiv
“In this work we present RoboJEPA, a world model based on the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) and trained on a large-scale dataset spanning 12 robotic embodiments. We show that RoboJEPA’s imagination error, the error of its latent rollouts, follows a second-order…”
- Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE
“Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y Combinator…”
- Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens - MarkTechPost — MarkTechPost
“Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with…”
- New California Laws Regulate AI Use in Health Care — Reed Smith
“Three of the over twenty new AI-related laws that were signed into law in California last week will have significant impacts on the use of AI for health care involving California residents. The laws govern the development and deployment of AI-based clinical decision support…”