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GRAI, a music lab startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding to develop AI tools that encourage remixing and sharing music socially, rather than generating tracks from scratch. Backed by investors like Khosla Ventures, the company focuses on giving artists control over modifications while targeting Gen Z and Gen Alpha users. Founders from Belarus plan apps like Music with Friends for iOS to gather user feedback.
US startup Physical Intelligence released π0.7, a robot foundation model that recombines trained skills much like language models handle text. Built on Google's Gemma3 with added contextual data, it matches specialist models on tasks and transfers to new robots. The approach raises questions about true generalization versus remixing similar training examples, echoing debates in large language models.