Orbit Labs, Fusion Funding, and Medical AI Model Fixes | UpNext AI – July 7, 2026
A catch-up on a lighter but still revealing AI news day: space-based protein research, fusion money tied to AI-era energy demand, a new benchmark for fixing medical vision-language models, and three quick headlines on model churn, Anthropic privacy backlash, and Tencent’s latest open model.
Covered in this episode:
- A British startup launches an orbital lab to gather microgravity data for AI models studying disease-linked proteins
- Google backs Proxima Fusion in a €400 million round that values the company at €2.4 billion
- New research on whether medical vision-language models can be…
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