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HOME Subscribe shift is microagi's answer to one of robotics' biggest bottlenecks. Large language models were trained on vast amounts of text and images from the internet, but no comparable trove exists for robots. UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg has called this the "100,000-year data gap," referring to the disparity between the training data available to robots and chatbots.

shift competes with companies including Scale AI, Turing, and micro1, which also pay people to record themselves performing tasks that robots may eventually do.

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Kilic said microagi will use the new funding to pay for the computing power needed to train robotics models, expand shift's data collection network, and grow its US presence from New York.