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Construction AI News: August 2026
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- Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSourceDigs, a Vancouver, Washington startup building AI software for home construction, raised a $25.3 million Series A with Builders FirstSource as the only lead investor. The two companies also signed a five-year commercial agreement to build Digs into Builders FirstSource's digital tools for builders and homeowners.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 24, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 24 to Aug 30, 2026: Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSource.
- Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomyZurich-based Gravis Robotics, which retrofits excavators and other heavy machines with sensors and AI for assisted or autonomous work, announced a $200 million Series A from SoftBank. Sifted reported the round values the company at $1 billion. Gravis calls it the largest Series A in construction robotics.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 17, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 17 to Aug 23, 2026: Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomy.
- NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agentsNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open mixture-of-experts model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, aimed at fast, repetitive agent steps like tool calls. CNBC reported NVIDIA says it can run on a single GPU in a laptop or desktop. It is available in Ollama.
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model it says is built for local agent work and small enough to run on a Mac or PC with one consumer GPU. The weights are under the Apache 2.0 license. Ollama added it the same day.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 10, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Aug 10 to Aug 16, 2026: Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0; NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agents.