Luma AI Eyes International Expansion

Company Strategy & Expansion - Luma is launching its second office outside of Palo Alto in London, viewing London as a gateway for business in Europe and the Middle East [1][2] - Luma aims to build multimodal AGI that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world [10] - Luma is deeply focused on general purpose robotics, viewing video as the path to AGI and a universal simulator [8][7] Talent Acquisition - Luma has a significant pipeline of researchers and engineers from Europe, including those from DeepMind [1] - Luma attracts exceptional talent due to its focused mission on multimodal AGI and high resource allocation per person, currently around 150 people [4] - Luma aims to hire 200-300 brilliant people to solve research problems [13] Technology & Research - Video, audio, and language combined offer a chance to build a universal simulator, enabling general purpose robotics [7][8] - Luma is focused on solving the research problem for omni models that can reason in audio, video, language, and text together [12] - Advancements in video models will lead to more accurate physics simulations, crucial for building physical intelligence [10] Compute Infrastructure - Luma, in collaboration with Humane, is building a 2 gigawatt compute cluster, one of the largest in the world models and video models space [14] - Multimodal AI will require more compute than is currently available, making compute a critical input for Luma's business [15] Funding - Luma has raised $900 million [11]