Robots Don't Need More Compute. They Need This.

Encord is building the AI-native data infrastructure for physical AI and robotics, helping the world's top AI teams create, manage, annotate, and evaluate the data that goes into their models. The company just announced a $60 million Series C led by Wellington Management. In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders Eric and Ulrich sat down with YC's Nicolas Dessaigne to talk about building a data infrastructure company before ChatGPT made AI a hot category, why physical AI is the next frontier but needs a fundamentally different approach to data than LLMs, and how they're opening an R&D facility in the Bay Area where robotics companies can bring their own hardware and collect the training data they need to get to market.