Building at the intersection of physical and digital. Driven by games and gaming technology, XR, Web3, and AI. For disclosures, visit https://xitter.cf/t.co/KOs4vqyKIr.
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As backers of @MidcenturyAI , we’re glad to see the team put serious compute and a dataset of this scale directly in the hands of researchers working on the foundational questions in world models and robot learning.
🎮 Games have been the proving ground for simulation for decades, and the same intuition that taught us how players learn inside virtual worlds now applies to how machines learn to act in the physical one.
Announcing the Midcentury Research Residency.
We're bringing together a small cohort of researchers to tackle the hardest problems in physical AI, backed by:
→ $1 million in compute
→ The world's largest robotics dataset spanning 2M+ hours
→ SOTA action supervision infrastructure
Our first cohort includes an author of NVIDIA's Cosmos 3, a CoRL award winner, and researchers from CMU, UCL, and Brown, with publications at NeurIPS and ICRA.
Their research focuses on fundamental questions in robot learning and world models. We've already published MC-PhysBench, with more work coming soon.
Applications for Cohort 2 are now open. Apply here: midcentury.xyz/residency
Circle Games shipped Sort Express , hit top-tier D30 retention and 75 min daily playtime, soft-launched Cat Loop, started prototyping a third title — all in 12 months, with 28 people in Istanbul. Tencent led the Series A. We backed them from Seed and wrote up why.
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#BehindTheDeal #MobileGaming #CircleGames
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We’re excited to announce that @ultravox_dot_ai is now part of Inworld.
Ultravox is the platform developers use to build real-time voice agents. We've worked with the team for a while through our TTS partnership, and today members of the team that built it are joining Inworld to keep developing it.
Ripping a pack used to be over in ten seconds. Now the cards live in a vault and can be opened, traded or sold back whenever you like. Everett Chiang (@SpinFN) why the reveal is only the start, and what will separate the platforms that last:
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@Courtyard_io @Collector_Crypt @BOXEDHQ
#Collectibles #TradingCards
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Circle Games raises $25m in Series A led by Tencent
The Istanbul-based studio has now raised $32.25m in total
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Introducing Midcentury.
We’re building the data and simulation infra for physical AI.
Today, we’re coming out of stealth with a $15M Series Seed to scale robotics beyond polished demos.
We’re already supporting frontier labs with:
→ The world’s largest egocentric dataset: 2M+ hours, 50+ environments, 20,000+ tasks
→ Matrix: a frontier simulation platform scaled with our real-world data to evaluate and post-train policies at scale
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Realtime TTS-2 is GA today, now the #1 model on Artificial Analysis and fastest TTS in the world of its class.
The research preview got far more usage than expected. That experience went back into research and today's GA model represents the biggest leap in Inworld's history.
Automated Token Portfolios are a new financial primitive only possible through digital assets and tokenization.
@Bitwise designs rules-based tokenized stock portfolios. @coinbase provides the tokenized stocks. @glider__ automatically keeps the wallet aligned to the model weights, without taking custody.
The big shift: the investor does not move assets into a pooled fund. The model comes to the wallet.
That opens up a new design space for thematic exposure, self-custody, automation, and eventually more composable portfolio products.
Congrats to the Glider and Bitwise teams. This is the kind of infrastructure work that makes tokenized markets feel less like a wrapper and more like a new product surface.
Stars Reach is live in Early Access. We led @PlayableWorlds seed. Most online games ask what you can do — this one remembers what you did.
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Congratz to the Team !💪
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🚀💫Stars Reach is LIVE! 🚀💫
We have officially launched into Early Access! ☄️
Head on over to Steam (store.steampowered.com/app/1…) to pick your edition, and take your first steps into a brand new galaxy.
🌟 We’ll see you among the stars! 🌟
Hulp has raised a $2.6M seed round, co-led by BITKRAFT Ventures and Sparrow Capital, with participation from DeVC(Z47) and a group of angel investors. 💪
@Anuj_Tandon our Partner for India & UAE: "The next shift in consumer AI isn't necessarily about smarter models, it is about who owns the context. Hulp is a forward-looking version of that thesis for us — a human-led assistant, powered by AI, that builds trust with Indian families and drives real efficiency in their daily lives."
Congratulations to the team!
Full release below:
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#Hulp #AI #PersonalAssistant #Funding
World Model Builders Meetup 🌎
We're co-hosting with @theworldlabs at @fdotinc in SF to uncover where world models are headed and how they will unlock the next frontier of AI with a fireside chat, live demos, and the people building at the forefront of spatial intelligence, physical AI, and generative media in one room.
📍Founders, Inc. | San Francisco
🗓️August 10
Food and drinks will be served, and space will be limited!
REGISTER HERE: luma.com/4hemhurn
Today, Avesta opens.
Nine years of building. One persistent, entirely player-run world.
SEED — from our portfolio company @KlangGames is live in Early Access right now.
Get in: seed.game 📷
Easier to build. Harder to sell. 🔧
Our Principal @DaniKTran the AI hardware gap, why capital didn't save Magic Leap, Jawbone, Humane or Amazon Halo, and the five questions we ask before we back one.
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India-built. GCC-watched.
@kukutv1 featured in Omdia's Microdrama GCC report — 25% of their GCC audience is from the UAE. Daily engagement approaching globally established streaming platforms.
Proud to back the team. 🇮🇳
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Our Principal @DaniKTran on where policy creates investable seams, why the scaling-capital gap matters more than the subsidies, and how BITKRAFT thinks about the compute layer underneath the AI-native stack.
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