By Faizan Farooque
Publication Date: 2025-12-08 17:50:00
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
SoftBank Group and Nvidia (NVDA, Financials) are in advanced talks to invest in Skild AI as part of a funding round that could value the robotics software startup at roughly $14 billion, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. The round would be worth more than $1 billion, which is almost three times what Skild was worth earlier this year.
Skild AI is getting a lot of attention for its goal of creating universal foundation models for all sorts of robots. This is one of the greatest problems that has to be solved before robots can be used on a large scale: providing machines the ability to see and make decisions so they can perform activities that are hard to foresee. Amazon and well-known investment companies like Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures support the startup, which was started in 2023 by former Meta researchers.
As AI technology improves, investors are increasingly interested in humanoid and general-purpose robots. However, experts say that widespread use is still years away. SoftBank has been becoming bigger in the robotics field; it just bought ABB’s robots division. Nvidia, on the other hand, is still putting money into AI ecosystems that rely on its processors.
