Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories
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Arda raising $232M at a $1.5B valuation to turn product designs into assembly lines is a strong bet that AI-native manufacturing engineering becomes its own software category. If you build physical products, start mapping which parts of line design and retooling you’d trust to a model within 12–24 months.
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