Rising

The comets. Entries marked rising or watch, ordered by most recent signal. A signal is a dated, sourced piece of evidence — an appointment, a landmark paper, a funding round, a prize. Add signals in the entry's YAML; this page orders itself.

M 116 rising

Peng Zhihui 彭志辉

Co-founder & CTO, AgiBot (Zhiyuan)

2026-05-01 — AgiBot automotive pilots expanding; X1 open-source platform adoption growing

Robotics
M 144 rising

AMI Labs

LeCun's world-model lab — $1.03B seed (largest in European history); Singapore office

LeCun's world-model lab — $1.03B seed (largest in European history); Singapore office

AI
M 141 rising

AgiBot (Zhiyuan) 智元机器人

Open-source X1 platform; automotive pilots; Peng Zhihui's company

Open-source X1 platform; automotive pilots; Peng Zhihui's company

Robotics
M 139 rising

Physical Intelligence

The reference robot-foundation-model startup (π-series VLAs)

The reference robot-foundation-model startup (π-series VLAs)

RoboticsAI