Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is moving beyond large language models and into a new frontier of machine intelligence – one that doesn’t just talk about the world but understands it.

In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.

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The founder of the OpenAI-backed company said a science fiction-like future, where robots can reproduce and colonize the galaxy, is within reach.

For Hock Tan, Broadcom’s CEO, the OpenAI deal is just the latest milestone in a bull year that has seen his company’s stock rise more than 30% even before the jump caused by the OpenAI announcement. That makes Broadcom the seventh-most-valuable company in the world.

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These machines, known as robots, are deployed across a broad ...

Automation at the company, the Times wrote, could let Amazon "avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027," and hundreds of thousands more after that, even if the company's sales volume soars.