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VLC Creator Raises $5M for Robot Control Startup Kyber

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised a $5 million round led by Lightspeed for Kyber, a Paris startup building an…

What Kyber actually builds

Kyber sells a problem most people never think about: the gap between where a machine acts and where its brain lives.

Why scale is the real bet

Kempf is open that the technology is not unique on its own.

The open-source playbook, again

True to the way Kempf built VLC, Kyber's core project is open source.

What happens next over the coming days

With the round public, expect Kyber to lean into hiring, especially more forward-deployed engineers, since that group already anchors the team and the custom-deployment model depends on it.

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