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📈 Speaker Spotlight: Viki Huang What if AI's biggest payoff isn't productivity — but longer, healthier, better human lives? Viki Huang is an investor at Prosperity7 Ventures, the $5B global growth fund backed by Saudi Aramco, where she backs AI, semiconductor, and enterprise companies from Series A to pre-IPO. 🔹 Investor at Prosperity7 Ventures ($5B Aramco-backed growth fund) 🔹 Focused on AI, semiconductors & enterprise software (Series A → pre-IPO) 🔹 Prior: business development at AI-chip startup Tetramem · deep-tech investor at Atlantic Bridge 🔹 Duke MQM · Columbia economics & mathematics Her bet: the next era of AI won't just optimize work — it'll extend healthy lifespans and elevate daily living. Hear Viki's investor outlook at AGI Summit SF 2026. 📅 July 18–19, 2026 📍 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco 🎟 Tickets: 🏷️ 15% off with code GenAI-26 #agisummit# #aiareall# #venturecapital#

This is the capital of robotics! 🌁 Silicon Valley is home to so many physical AI companies that you could spend a month visiting them and still not see even 10% of them (trust me, I tried). It took me 3x to create this map as it did to create any other. And the truth is, it's still incomplete. Let’s see why this is the case. So, the Bay Area is the world's leading ecosystem for robotics startups, bringing together top AI talent, top universities, experienced founders, and unmatched access to capital. The region is anchored by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, two of the world's top universities for AI and robotics. They produce a constant stream of researchers, founders, and breakthrough technologies. The Bay Area is also home to many of the companies shaping the future of robotics and AI, including @Figure_robot, @physical_int , and major AI labs such as @OpenAI. This concentration of talent makes it easy for startups to recruit experienced engineers and collaborate with leaders in embodied AI. Not mentioning that it  is also home to leaders such as @NVIDIARobotics , whose headquarters and leadership in AI chips power much of today's robotics revolution, and @Tesla, whose work on autonomous driving and humanoid robots has created a deep pool of robotics, AI, and manufacturing talent. Perhaps its biggest advantage is access to capital and ambition. The Bay Area has the world's deepest network of venture capital firms, serial entrepreneurs, and technical leaders who are willing to fund bold, long-term robotics companies. In the comments I'll post the companies from the ecosystem. ‼️ Note that Bay Area has >300 robotics companies, research labs, and innovation hubs, so this is a curated selection of the notable product companies, not an exhaustive census! P.S. I'm constantly working on improving these maps, so if your company is missing, please DM me with basic info about the co, and I will include it in the next release. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and tech executives are pulling their kids from public and private schools to enroll them in AI-tutoring startups that pay staff to stop calling themselves teachers and face no state requirement to report how well any of it works. Alpha School, now in a dozen cities and expanding to nearly two dozen more this fall, charges $75,000 a year in San Francisco for two hours of AI tutoring followed by project workshops, using software that tracks how closely a child pays attention. Forge Prep in New Jersey charges up to $36,000 and promises graduates a $200,000 payout if they start a company instead of taking a job. Billionaire Bill Ackman has publicly backed Alpha. Neither school reports outcomes to any state, and Forge's own founder admits there is no data showing things are going well. Alpha sells home-schooling software on top of tuition. Forge's startup fund assumes graduates will found companies rather than join a labor market its own AI curriculum is designed to help automate. Alpha's spokeswoman says its families are overwhelmingly finance, venture capital, and tech workers, meaning the industry building the AI disrupting entry-level jobs is now selling itself a private curriculum to land its own kids on the ownership side of that disruption. Alpha's in-person staff voted to reject the word teacher, and its remote coaches monitoring the AI software are scattered across the globe. Stanford's Victor Lee says dropping the title diminishes the professionalism teaching requires. Stanford's Caroline Hoxby, who studies these programs rather than sells them, says there is negligible scientific evidence behind any of it. My take: The same investor class funding AI tools built to gut entry-level jobs is now buying its own children a private exemption from those tools' consequences, for $75,000 a year. Public schools absorb AI disruption unfunded and unreformed while this cohort builds itself an unaccountable alternative marketed as personalization. This is what class stratification looks like once it gets rebranded as coaching, guides, and life skills.

How did China build humanoid demand before the market existed? @UnitreeRobotics shows the playbook: a four-rung ladder where each step funds the next. 1. Research sales fund tooling costs 2. Consumer/commercial fund volume manufacturing 3. State procurement funds fleet deployment at scale 4. Industrial pilots feed real-world training data Unitree’s quadrupeds climbed all four rungs in 7 years. Their humanoids are currently on step 1. US players like @Figure_robot and @Tesla skip straight to step 4, industrial labor. It’s the highest-stakes market, relying on venture capital to cover the massive R&D gap until the tech matures. Which path hits industrial scale first: the ladder, or the sprint? Deep dive through Unitree’s IPO prospectus and @UBTECHRobotics public filings in the report below:

“The continent should immediately create the market conditions for its own AI labs to start, scale and win,” writes Judith Dada, a venture-capital investor, in a guest essay

The conversations at Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice were enriching and insightful. Engaged with investors and venture capital leaders on the immense opportunities India offers across innovation, technology, manufacturing and emerging sectors. India’s growth is powered by talent, scale, stability and reform, making it an attractive destination for investment and innovation. @BharatInnov2026

it’s the final day of new york tech week!!! 🤠 we’re closing out the week with community gatherings, final demo days, and weekend hackathons. you can wrap up your week at the tavern community yacht party or check out the elevenlabs pop-up showcase if you haven't already. here’s what’s happening to close it out: featured tracks & final showcases • 11:00 AM - PopUp (ElevenLabs) • 2:00 PM - Yacht Party (Tavern Community) morning resets & community • 9:45 AM - Park Walk & Talk (NeuroNYC) • 11:00 AM - Summer Social (ASAN) • 11:00 AM - Recovery Walk (icon ny) • 12:30 PM - Picnic (Christians*inTech) • 1:00 PM - Networking (Clutch Talent) ai labs, hacks & builders • 8:30 AM - Health x AI Hack (Girls Into VC) • 9:30 AM - M-2 Hackathon (Individual) • 10:00 AM - Intern Hackathon (Hackathon Co.) • 10:00 AM - Digital Product Funding (DN) venture capital & pitch showcases • 8:30 AM - Women in Fintech (Women X) • 9:00 AM - AI Investment Summit (Sinbad) • 11:00 AM - Youngest Demo Day (TKS) • 11:30 AM - Doctor Investor Summit (investDoc) • 3:00 PM - Demo Day & Mixer (Venture Miner) • 6:00 PM - Demo Showcase (Draper House) full schedule at follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!