The robotics gold rush just claimed another unicorn. FieldAI, the two-year-old startup building AI models that control robots across industries, has closed $405 million in funding that values the company at $2 billion. The backing from Nvidia's venture arm and Jeff Bezos' family office signals that the AI hardware revolution is accelerating beyond chatbots into the physical world.
FieldAI just became robotics' newest billion-dollar bet, and the timing couldn't be more telling. The Irvine-based startup's $405 million raise comes as Nvidia's chips power an AI boom that's finally breaking free from computer screens into the physical world. "We are growing," founder and CEO Ali Agha told CNBC. "This funding announcement is to respond to the customer demand."
The $2 billion valuation puts FieldAI in rarefied air for a company that didn't exist three years ago. NVentures, Nvidia's venture capital division, led the charge alongside Bezos Expeditions, the Amazon founder's family office. The investor lineup reads like a who's who of tech power brokers: Khosla Ventures, Temasek, Canaan Partners, and Intel Capital all participated.
Bill Gates' presence through Gates Frontier and Samsung's earlier investment underscore how established tech giants are scrambling to stake claims in the robotics revolution. The rounds were oversubscribed, with Agha revealing that most investors approached the company rather than the other way around.
