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Loosararian: NVIDIA invested $1B into Skild AI at $14B valuation

Jake Loosararian · Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos! · Jan 23, 2026 · at 1:33:12

Jake Loosararian, CEO of Gecko Robotics, cites venture funding into AI foundational models for robotics.

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“NVIDIA, I think, just put a billion dollars into skilled AI, which is creating the brain for robots. Actually at a fourteen billion dollar evaluation”

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