Travis Kalanick's robotics startup taps Meta veteran for top AI role
Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses, is joining Atoms.
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup, Atoms, has hired Vikas Chandra, a former Meta executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses. Chandra will serve as vice president of AI, focusing on building foundation models for the physical world. He joined Atoms following a $1.7 billion funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Atoms, which plans to build robots for industries like food, mining, and transportation, did not respond to requests for comment.
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