Four Indian startups just made Google DeepMind's first-ever climate-AI accelerator cohort, out of only 16 selected across the whole Asia-Pacific region. Three of them are betting on the same idea: that AI can turn a smallholder farmer's land into a source of carbon credit income.
The funding round values the chipmaker at $4.2 billion as demand for energy-efficient inference hardware surges.
The robotics startup plans to use the capital to expand manufacturing of its latest humanoid robot for warehouse logistics.
More than 60% of the latest YC batch is building autonomous AI agents for coding, sales, and back-office automation.
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