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Hedra grows revenue 15x and launches Model Factory, a self-improving post-training and inference platform for robotics, manufacturing, biology and defense.
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Hedra, an a16z-backed AI research company, launched Hedra Model Factory on 10 November 2026, an autonomous post-training and inference platform for physical and multimodal AI. The platform combines GPU sandboxes, post-training by Hedra researchers working with autonomous AI agents, low-latency deployment and a self-improvement loop that retrains models after they ship. Hedra grew revenue 15x over the past 12 months and targets robotics, manufacturing, biology and defense teams. In under a week, Hedra cut Krea 3 image edits from about 22 seconds to 3.6 seconds on the same four AMD MI355X GPUs, roughly 6x faster. Its retrained H3 video model scored 34.9 on Google DeepMind's Physics-IQ benchmark, against 30.3 for H3 Max. In simulation, Hedra restored a robot's task success from near zero to near 100% after a gripper swap, with no retraining. The launch comes as physical AI startups raised $47.4 billion in the first half of 2026, more than in 2022 to 2024 combined.