Backops AI raises $42M Series B for supply chain automation

Alibaba's full-width Fun ControlNet checkpoint for MiniMax H3 needs roughly 124GB and was unloadable in ComfyUI; a loader for Kijai's pruned curve-form variant shipped and runs on a 3090.

Open source agentic assistant pulls from 600K+ ClinicalTrials.gov studies, 29M PubMed abstracts, and 12M PubMed Central full-text articles. It runs data analyses in a secure sandbox and delegates tasks to hundreds of sub-agents.

OpenVINO 2026.4 adds CPU support for Gemma-3n and CPU/GPU support for Kokoro-82M and Qwen3-VL-4B with eagle3. The release emphasizes more Gen AI coverage and framework integrations to minimize code changes.

REVERSAL-BENCH controls environmental reversibility via a continuous parameter ρ∈[0,1] and adds a reset oracle across eight manipulation settings in five physics engines. Reset-free agents get absorbed into irrecoverable states as ρ rises, while episodic agents keep learning.

Karp told CNBC that AI regulation should take the form of "reasonable guidelines" as tech and policy leaders deliberate over the technology. The remarks come as Palantir's CEO weighs in on pacing AI development.