Perceptron
Foundation Models · LLM & Generative AI
Overview
A layer of intelligence for the physical world.We are a research company building the future of Physical AGI.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$6.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$6.5M
Venture round · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Backers
1
SmartGateVC
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · not hiring
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1 mo ago
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Jul 30
Raised a round Venture round $6.5M
Sep 2024
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
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| Venture round | Jul 2026 | $6.5M | — | thestreet.com |
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Financials
Total raised
$6.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $6.5M | Details |
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News
Perceptron Ships 36B Robot Weights Under Apache-2.0
Last week I wrote up Perceptron's teleoperation substitution curve and said nobody could check it, because the weights were not out. They landed three days later.
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Perceptron AI Launches Isaac 0.5, a Frontier Open-Weight Robotics Model
BELLEVUE, Wash., August 28, 2026--Perceptron AI has launched Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight embodied foundation model that combines video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control, the first open model at the frontier of all three
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Perceptron AI (@perceptroninc) on X
Today we're releasing Isaac 0.5: 36B dynamic MoE, open weight embodied foundation model.Isaac combines multimodal video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control into a single, sparse backbone.
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
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Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
Early adopters are using the model for diverse applications, such as auto-clipping highlights from live sports, which leverages the model's temporal understanding to identify key plays without human intervention.
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The perceptron
An overview of the perceptron, including theory, what was actually built, and the hype.
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