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Skild AI Raises $1.4 Billion at $14 Billion Valuation in SoftBank-Led Round

The financing positions the company to scale its general-purpose Skild Brain for enterprise deployments.

Overview

  • Bloomberg reports the Series C totals about $1.4 billion and values Skild AI at more than $14 billion, led by SoftBank with participation from Nvidia, Macquarie Group and 1789 Capital.
  • CEO Deepak Pathak told Bloomberg the company has now raised more than $2 billion in total funding.
  • The new valuation represents a jump from roughly $4.5 billion reported last summer.
  • Skild AI is developing the Skild Brain, a foundation model intended to control different robot hardware and adapt in real time, including by learning from human demonstrations.
  • The company plans to prioritize enterprise rollouts with the new capital, while some outlets also report additional investors such as Bezos Expeditions, Samsung and LG that are not yet broadly corroborated.