Helm.ai signs $70 million in commercial contracts for physical AI foundation models within 12 months

Helm.ai announced it has signed $70 million in commercial contracts over the past 12 months, with customers including global automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and industrial automation companies, and said the company is nearing break-even. Its foundation models use an unsupervised "deep teaching" method that hierarchically decouples perception and decision-making to improve data efficiency, and the technology has been used in SAE L2 to L4 autonomous driving, mining, construction, and delivery drone projects.