BofA dismisses frontier AI lab controversy as market noise, projecting AI capital expenditure could surge 3x to over $3 trillion by decade end with strong demand signals. Discussions also cover Vangrid's spatial data infrastructure for Physical AI systems and comparative analysis of Brazilian public companies' cash generation over the past decade.
OpenArm is an open-source 7-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm designed for physical AI research in contact-rich environments, featuring high backdrivability, compliance, and human-scale proportions at $6,500 for a bimanual system. The project includes standardized evaluation cells to enable reproducible research globally and supports teleoperation, imitation learning, and real-world data collection.