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VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333

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VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333

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This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

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This Week in Startups examines the forces behind the surge in physical AI, from defense and orbital infrastructure to applied robotics, while investors debate regulation, data custody, and the return of on-premise AI.
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Physical AI funding surges
09:38
The Pentagon is bringing generative AI into military operations
12:03
Deploying civilian AI in defense requires a different level of control
13:54
The bottleneck has shifted from winning contracts to surviving them
18:02
Capability does not answer the question of responsibility
22:03
ChatGPT is now legally treated as a search engine in the EU
25:47
Europe is dramatically undercapitalized
39:33
The economics of space are changing
40:23
Focus on the opportunity, not the noise
42:13
Invest in what AI labs depend on
46:44
Applied AI became Paige’s specialty
54:37
SpaceX is everyone's single point of failure
57:49
Physical AI funding has exploded
59:23
Verticalized applications reach commercialization faster
1:03:58
Hardware has become a moat
1:05:59
The next generation wants meaningful missions
1:10:48
Anthropic reverses course on data retention
1:12:15
Founder trust depends on protecting precious information
1:15:21
Higher stakes than a feature race
1:15:56
On-premise AI is coming back
1:17:14
Frontier-model dependence is dangerous

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Why making it to Fund IV is when it gets real
00:00
Pentagon rolls out ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government
09:28
Sentry - Your team should be focused on shipping features — not chasing down bugs. New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to https://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST
10:49
Paige on defense tech and three years at Northrop Grumman
11:53
Katelin: The bottleneck used to be winning the contract, now it's surviving one
13:40
Autonomous weapons, robot dogs, and the Boston Dynamics conversation in Paris
16:13
Lightfield - Name one person who's ever enjoyed updating a CRM. Exactly. Lightfield's AI agent does it for you — it even prospects and books your meetings. Used by thousands of startups. Free at https://lightfield.app
19:07
EU designates ChatGPT a "very large online search engine" under the DSA
22:03
Katelin's contrarian take: Europe is undercapitalized
24:54
Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Your first app is free! Get started today!
29:56
Starcloud raises $250M at a $2.3B valuation
31:07
Competing with Elon: the single point of failure for the whole space economy
53:06
Physical AI raised ~$47B in the first half of 2026
57:49
Jason's Zipline regret and the death of "hardware is hard"
1:03:42
Is "unc" a compliment? A Gen X / millennial / Gen Z / Gen Alpha
1:07:07
Anthropic reverses its data retention policy after enterprise pushback
1:09:47
Katelin on data custody: "That's not a procurement question"
1:12:18
Back to on-prem: Go.AI, the Go1, and vertical LLMs
1:15:31

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Jason Calacanis: Physical AI companies now have raised almost $50 billion in venture funding, wait for it, in the first half of 2026, up 80% from 2025. Six months of this year out-raised 2022, 2023, and 2024 combined. Katelin Holloway: Jensen very famousl...