Chat made AI legible to every board, and robots that see, plan, and act now make it consequential.
Frontier capital now treats robot learning, autonomous science, and new interfaces as the next compounding domains beyond language and code. Tesla’s Optimus and Robotaxi record shows how far demonstrations still sit from deployment, so this analysis sets out how to fund physical AI pilots with preregistered measures, a classical baseline, engineered safety, an operating-mode ledger, and a named human who decides.



