Venture candidateAutomated record
Menlo Research
Menlo builds Asimov, the world's most developer-friendly robot.
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PUBLIC TRACTION
Usage, audience and developer pull
7.2KHF model downloads143.6 per model
690HF followers1.7K total likes
2.1KGitHub stars330 forks
50Model portfolio40 datasets · 0 Spaces
WHY IT IS ON THE RADAR
Multimodal platform option
- Shipping now
- GitHub momentum
- Multi-modality surface
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MODEL FOOTPRINT
What it publishes
Language/TextAudio/Speech3D/Robotics/RL
Most popular HF repositoryMenlo/Jan-nano-128k-gguf2.7K downloads · 75 likes ↗
- Top tasks
- text-generation (9), audio-text-to-text (5), robotics (2)
- Model sizes
- 3-10B (26); Unknown (13); 0.5-3B (8); <0.5B (2); 30-100B (1)
- Base families
- Qwen, Llama
- Libraries
- transformers
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DEVELOPER ACTIVITY
How it ships
Original repositories11
Forked repositories7
Pushed in 90 days8
Archived share6%
Most-starred repositorymenloresearch/asimov-11.2K stars · 190 forks ↗
- Languages
- Python, Go, Jupyter Notebook, C++
- Topics
- humanoid, humanoid-robot, humanoid-robots, humanoid-walking, humanoids, robotics
- Latest release
- menloresearch/cli · Apr 21, 2026
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ACTIVITY TIMELINE
Latest observed moves
- GitHub pushRepository activity ↗
- GitHub releaseRelease v0.0.12 ↗
- HF datasetDataset published or updated ↗
- HF modelModel published or updated ↗
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THE NEOLAB STACK
Publicly evidenced tooling
- Training
- TRL, Transformers, Unsloth
- Compute
- Not disclosed
- Hardware
- Not disclosed
- Tracking
- Not disclosed
- Bottlenecks
- Licensing / rights, Evaluation
“Not disclosed” means no evidence was found in the sampled public metadata or top model card—not that the lab does not use the tool.
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COMPARABLE LABS
Nearest modality peers
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VAGO solutionsINVESTOR DILIGENCE
Identify the wedge with real user pull and separate platform breadth from unfocused experimentation.
- HF member count is only a public-profile proxy
MISSING FROM THIS RECORD
foundedYearfoundersOrLeadershipemployeeCountfundingbusinessModelproducts
Completeness: 8 of 14 tracked field groups. Unknowns are explicit so an analyst can close them.
DATA PROVENANCE
Every claim should be auditable.
Platform counters are a point-in-time public snapshot. Editorial facts are only promoted after source review.
NEOLAB TRACKER PRO
Know when the thesis changes.
Weekly deltas, funding and team alerts, portfolio watchlists, CSV exports and an analyst-ready API turn a static profile into a sourcing system.