Alphabet News
Latest Alphabet news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 14 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
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Alphabet Inc. is the American multinational holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California that owns Google, Waymo, Google DeepMind, Verily, Wing and other subsidiaries. Created in 2015 through a restructuring of Google, it is one of the world's largest technology companies and a leading investor in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and autonomous mobility.
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- Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Nears 1,300 Vehicles as San Antonio Launch Opens Its Biggest Geofence Yet — Tesla launched robotaxi service in San Antonio on November 9 with a 272-square-mile geofence, its largest yet, as its Texas fleet closes in on Waymo's...
- Zipline Raises $1.5 Billion at $21.5 Billion Valuation to Scale Drone Delivery — Zipline closed a $1.5 billion round led by Paradigm and WCM Investment Management, nearly tripling its valuation to $21.5 billion as Walmart adds 300...
- Walmart Brings Drone Delivery to West Memphis, Its First Mid-South Market With Wing — Walmart and Wing launched drone delivery in West Memphis, Arkansas on November 2, the Mid-South's first such service, as Walmart targets 40 million cu...
- Amazon Withdraws Prime Air Drone Delivery Plan for Westborough After Local Opposition — Amazon pulled its application for a Prime Air drone delivery launch site at its Westborough, Massachusetts fulfillment center after sustained communit...
- Waymo Picks Toyota's bZ4X as Its Next Robotaxi for Japan and the UK — Waymo will integrate its autonomous driving system into Toyota's 2027 bZ4X, with testing starting in Japan next year and the partnership also targetin...
- Lowe's Launches Drone Delivery Pilot With Wing And DoorDash In NC — Lowe's is teaming with Wing and DoorDash for the first US home-improvement drone delivery pilot, offering 100+ SKUs and 20-minute delivery from a Matt...
- Waymo Turns On Public Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, Its 15th U.S. City — Waymo has begun public driverless robotaxi service on the Las Vegas Strip, opening its 15th U.S. commercial market and capping a four-city September e...
- Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa — Waymo brings driverless commercial service to 14 U.S. cities as its Zeekr-built Ojai minivan debuts in Denver and San Diego.
- Lyft Turns On Waymo Robotaxi Matching In Nashville As Uber Exclusivity Cracks — Nashville riders can now be matched with a Waymo autonomous vehicle straight from the Lyft app, the first US city where the same driverless fleet live...
- MediaTek Locks In Google TPU v8 Inference Role With Zebrafish Design — Google's TPU v8 splits training and inference across Broadcom and MediaTek, with MediaTek's Zebrafish variant giving the Taiwanese fabless a durable f...
- NVIDIA Debuts Jetson Orin Nano 2 With 2× Inference, Wing And Matic Adopt It First — NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles the inference performance of the previous Orin Nano at 40% lower power, with Wing, Matic Robotics, Cognex and Doos...
- Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft's Largest AI Customers on Azure — Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI models via Microsoft's Azure Foundry marketplace, running trillions of tokens each week...
- Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm ASIC And Seven-Supplier Stack Behind Its Ojai Robotaxi — Alphabet's Waymo has opened up the boot of its robotaxi, publishing the architecture of its onboard computer, a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC that pu...
- Google Wins $10M Bid for Spirit Airlines' Data to Train AI — Alphabet's Google agreed to pay $10 million for a scrubbed corporate dataset from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, adding roughly 100 million emails and 500...