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Gemini AI enters robotics

Gemini AI enters robotics

Plus: OpenAI deploys ChatGPT to the U.S. Pentagon

Barsee
11 Feb

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Happy Wednesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

Boston Dynamics integrates Gemini AI into its Humanoid Robot
Kimi launches Agent Swarm AI for parallel research and analysis
Isomorphic Labs claims a breakthrough in AI drug design beyond AlphaFold
OpenAI deploys ChatGPT to the U.S. Pentagon
The people warning about AI are starting to leave
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ Boston Dynamics integrates Gemini AI into Atlas Humanoid Robot

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google’s Gemini AI into its Atlas humanoid robot, bringing advanced reasoning and planning into a physical machine. The partnership with Google DeepMind gives Atlas stronger decision-making skills, allowing it to adapt to new tasks and changing environments. The latest electric version of Atlas is designed for real-world work such as lifting, carrying, and moving through factory and warehouse spaces. New demo footage shows the robot performing cartwheels, backflips, and stable movement on uneven ground using reinforcement learning and improved control systems. The broader goal is to move powerful AI beyond software and into robots that can operate with more independence in real settings.

2/ Kimi launches Agent Swarm AI for parallel research and analysis

Kimi has launched Agent Swarm, a new multi-agent AI system that runs many tasks at the same time instead of relying on a single model. The system can coordinate up to 100 sub-agents, make over 1,500 tool calls, and deliver results up to 4.5 times faster than traditional single-agent setups. It is available now as an early research preview on Kimi’s platform. Agent Swarm is designed for heavy workloads like research, analysis, and long-form writing, where users need input from multiple sources at once. Kimi says this shift moves AI from slow, vertical scaling toward faster, collaborative systems.

3/ Isomorphic Labs claims a breakthrough in AI drug design beyond AlphaFold

Isomorphic Labs says it has made a major step forward in AI-driven drug design with a new system called IsoDDE. Unlike AlphaFold, which focuses on predicting protein structures, IsoDDE aims to help design actual medicines by modeling how well drugs bind to proteins. The company claims the system more than doubles AlphaFold 3’s accuracy on difficult binding tests and can estimate binding strength faster and at lower cost than traditional physics-based methods. It can also identify new binding sites using only protein sequences. If these results hold up, IsoDDE could move AI drug discovery closer to practical use in real drug development.

4/ OpenAI deploys ChatGPT to the U.S. Pentagon

OpenAI has rolled out a custom version of ChatGPT on the U.S. Department of Defense’s GenAI.mil platform, giving military staff access to the model for unclassified work. The tool now sits alongside Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, creating a multi-vendor AI setup inside the Pentagon. OpenAI says the deployment includes strict safety and security controls. The move follows internal debate about military use and reflects a shift in how the company works with defense agencies. It also shows how fast AI is becoming part of government operations and opens a new revenue channel through federal contracts.

5/ OpenAI unveils Frontier, bringing AI coworkers into the enterprise

OpenAI has launched Frontier, a new enterprise platform for building and running AI agents inside large organizations. The system treats agents like AI coworkers that can share context, coordinate tasks, and follow company-wide access and security rules. Frontier is designed to connect with real business tools, so agents can handle everyday work in live systems instead of staying stuck in demos. It also supports open standards, meaning companies can run agents from OpenAI alongside models from other providers. With this move, OpenAI is positioning Frontier as a central layer for managing AI agents across enterprise teams and workflows.

6/ The people warning about AI are starting to leave

In just the past week, several events have added to growing concern about how fast AI is moving and how little control experts feel they have. A senior safety leader at Anthropic resigned, warning that risks are escalating. Multiple xAI co-founders have left, with one citing fears around self-improving systems. New reports show some AI models behave differently when they know they are being tested, raising trust and safety concerns. ByteDance’s latest video model is already replacing parts of professional creative work. At the same time, the U.S. declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report, signaling weaker global coordination on AI safety.

TRENDING TOOLS

Raven-1 > A multimodal perception system that reads what users say, how they say it, and what their expressions mean together
Tasklet > Turn plain English into scheduled automations. One sentence sets up workflows that run on autopilot
Claude in Excel > Official Anthropic extensions that bring Claude directly into Office workflows
Keep.md > Bookmark links from anywhere, save them as markdown, and pass them to your agent whenever needed
Rowboat > An open-source AI coworker that lets you describe what you want in plain English, then builds, tests, and deploys multi-agent systems
Hedra > Podcasts without a studio. Your voice drives the performance, and the scene follows your direction
Orchids 1.0 > An AI app builder that can create and deploy almost anything across web, mobile, extensions, Slack bots, and agents

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INDUSTRY MOVES

Nvidia has reportedly invested about $20 billion in OpenAI as part of its latest funding round, marking the largest investment Nvidia has ever made
Runway secures $315M in Series E led by General Atlantic at a $5.3B valuation
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke secures $60M seed for Entire, an open-source platform for tracking and managing AI-generated code shipped without human review