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Perceptron AI

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Perceptron AI is a physical AI research lab co-founded by former Meta FAIR multimodal researchers, building foundation models for embodied perception and real-world reasoning in robot and edge environments. Its Mk1 model (launched May 2026) is purpose-built for video understanding and embodied reasoning: it processes native video at up to 2 fps across a 32K-token context window and benchmarks competitively with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google frontier models at 80–90% lower cost. Target deployment environments include robotics perception pipelines, manufacturing quality control, geospatial analysis, and security monitoring; all domains requiring tight latency and cost constraints at the edge. BVP confirmed Perceptron as a portfolio company in its 2026 robotics and physical AI outlook alongside Waymo, ANYbotics, DroneDeploy, and Breaker.