In a Latent Space interview, Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard and AI lead Leif Jentoft explain how the industrial robotics company, which just raised a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, is building its AI stack; customers include NASA, Amazon, and Lockheed Martin.
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle discussed in a Latent Space interview how Airbnb is being built into an AI-native company. 60% of Airbnb's code is now written by AI, feature and improvement releases are up nearly 80% year over year, and engineers' average pull-request throughput has risen about 1.6x; roughly half of customer support tickets are fully resolved by AI, consistent with the near 45% reported in Q2 earnings.
The Latent Space podcast spoke with OpenRouter co-founder and CEO Alex Atallah and AMP's Anjney Midha, tracing how OpenRouter grew from the early wave of open-weight models like Llama and Alpaca into a neutral routing layer serving over 10 million developers and handling over 100 trillion tokens per day, and why it was acquired by Stripe.
In a Latent Space interview, AIUC co-founder Rune Kvist announced a $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital and First Harmonic, with Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and others already customers.