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Picks include Atomarine (floating nuclear-powered data centers with $4B in customer LOIs), Dipole Labs (optical networking that skips light-to-electricity conversion for AI data centers), Isengard (locally producible jet-powered drones with $10M revenue), Lamb Labs (chips with hardcoded AI model weights called MPUs), a robot-training-data company, Nori (a $1,600 home robot that folds laundry), a heavy-lifting robotics company aiming at Mars construction, Parasma (training human brain cells for compute), and Waddle Labs (an LLM-agent API that writes robot control code). Valuations across the batch were described as more grounded than in recent cohorts despite the ambitious, sci-fi-sounding ideas. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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