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Encord in the news
Read the latest coverage of Encord across leading technology and industry publications.
Venture Investment in Physical AI Surges
Coverage of the accelerating wave of venture capital flowing into physical AI, reporting $26.7B in global VC funding through Feb 2026. Encord is featured alongside Waymo and other leaders as investors bet on AI moving beyond software into robots, autonomous vehicles, and the physical world.
Physical AI data infrastructure startup Encord lands $60M to accelerate intelligent robot and drone development
Article describing Encord's role in moving autonomous systems from lab to production. Notes that Encord's 5+ petabyte platform now manages 3x the data volume used to train GPT-4.
Encord secures $60M Series C to scale AI-native data infrastructure as physical AI hits inflection
Wellington Management-led round brings total funding to $110M as the Encord sees physical AI revenue grow 10x and platform data scale to 5+ petabytes in 12 months
Encord secures $60M Series C to scale AI-native data infrastructure as physical AI hits inflection point
Morningstar article about Encord's funding announcement, highlighting the company's work with 300+ AI teams including Woven by Toyota, Zipline, and Skydio
World's largest open-source multimodal dataset delivers 17x training efficiency
Encord's dataset is 100 times larger than the next comparable multimodal dataset. It operates at petabyte scale with terabytes of raw data and over 1 million human annotations.
The startups taking on Scale AI in robotics
There's been a flurry of exciting startups leading the charge in the robotics space and growing fast to tackle the biggest problem in Physical AI today: data.
Encord lands new cash to grow its data dev tools for AI
Encord has raised $30m in Series B funding to expand its product, engineering, and AI research teams, and grow its San Francisco offices over the next six months.
Comment: Google Launches Tool That Detects AI Images
Ulrik Stig Hansen, Co-Founder & President at Encord, shares his thoughts on synthetic data, and Deepmind’s SynthID, with Forbes.
Artificial intelligence will ‘increase the standard’ of sport - experts from Encord explain
Alexandre Bonnet, Lead ML Solutions Engineer at Encord, opines on the use of artificial intelligence in sport.
