Hugging Face recently bought Pollen Robotics, a startup developing “open source” humanoid robots.

Joe Tsai, the chairman of Alibaba, a big tech company based in China, recently took the stage at a speaking gig aimed at young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. In a surprise twist, he spent a significant portion of his time criticizing the AGI and robotics industries. This, despite the fact that Alibaba is a global leader in both.