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Research & Science The Decoder

Toyota is betting $6.4 billion a year on humanoid robots and factory automation

AI summary Toyota plans to roll out 400,000 robots, backed by about $6.4 billion in yearly spending on humanoid machines and factory automation. Walden Robotics, its AI robotics spinout, listed in July, valued at $1.1 billion after raising $300 million. Goldman Sachs analysts see Toyota taking 3 to 8 percent of the humanoid market by 2035, competing with Hyundai, Tesla and Xpeng. The robots will go first into Toyota's own plants, while investors recall earlier letdowns with solid-state batteries and hydrogen cars.

Research & Science Apple ML Research

GHARP: Real-Time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-Scale Reconstruction Prior

AI summary Researchers including Ali Benlalah and Sepehr Johari have presented GHARP, a technique that animates 3D human heads live from a handful of photos of a person plus a signal describing facial expressions. The work is split in two: an offline step models the person's shape and look, while a small network suited to mobile devices adds expression changes at runtime. A separate body alignment network reduces blur and flicker caused by body and clothing details that expression codes do not capture. On the Ava-256 benchmark the method reaches top quality, is up to 13× quicker on an A100 GPU and needs 8× fewer Gaussians.

Models & Labs Anthropic

Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering

AI summary Anthropic has submitted a Form S-1 registration to the SEC ahead of a planned IPO of its Class A shares. The stock would trade under the ticker ANT on Nasdaq's Global Select Market. The share count and price range are still undecided. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will provide copies of the preliminary prospectus, and the filing has not yet taken effect.

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