May 30, 2025

Auki community update recap: May 30, 2025

Breaking Milestones, Winning Deals, and Racing Ahead

Crossing the 7 Digit ARR Mark

We’re tremendously excited to announce that Auki has officially hit 7 digit annual recurring revenue! This week, we signed a client worth over $2 million a year — a deal we’ve been quietly implementing for some time, and now it’s finalized. We also just received a paid pilot invoice from an even larger client, a sign of just how much confidence is building in our technology.

As Nils put it: “Today we broke 7 digits. I feel pretty good that we’ll break 8 digits this year.”

We’re seeing global momentum, with thousands of locations coming online across Denmark, the US, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, and beyond.

Racing to Roll Out Across the Globe

While Nils, Alex and the team are here in Hong Kong today, we’re flying out to San Francisco on Sunday for partner and VC meetings, followed by AWE and SuperAI. Then Alex goes straight back to Indonesia to set up another chain there. The scale of our rollout is speeding up.

We’re not aiming small either. We never have. “By the end of this year, we’re coming for the top-three spot in DePIN by revenue.”

Our current pipeline? Over $150 million ARR in interested clients — and we’re aiming to close at least 10% of that this year.

Robots That Understand the World — Instantly

One of the coolest highlights from the update was a new robotics demo showing off our collaborative spatial layer. In short:

  • A robot in a demo store can locate products, like coconut water with pulp.
  • We moved the product without reprogramming the robot.
  • Using just a phone and barcode scanner, we updated the spatial map in about 20 seconds — and the robot instantly knew where to go.

No long setup. No specialist technicians. No exporting between planogram software and robotics systems.

“We can get this system up and running in a single day. The best robot companies in the world need three to six months.”

And soon, we’ll have humanoid robots from Unitree doing the same tasks — including pointing at the products. We believe we’re months ahead of our closest competitor in being able to demo that, and we’re gearing up to deploy thousands of robots this year.

AWE Conference Alongside Big Names, and NVIDIA Partnership

We’re preparing to take the stage next month at the world’s largest AR conference, AWE, giving a keynote sandwiched between Niantic and Google. Yes, we’ve arrived as one of the big names.

On top of that, we’ve joined the NVIDIA Inception program, giving us deeper access to NVIDIA’s tools and development community. Expect some great demos, including a self-hosted VPS running on an NVIDIA Jetson device, coming soon at AWE.

Token Burns and Community Decisions

We’ve also been discussing token burns with the community. A recent poll showed split opinions:

  • Some want us to announce burns with a clear schedule.
  • Others prefer we quietly execute burns without prior announcements.

We haven’t decided yet, but rest assured, more burns are happening — and we’re committed to balancing what’s best for the community and the company.

Closing Notes

As we wrap up this huge week, we’re feeling incredibly proud.

“We came out of nowhere, and all of a sudden we’re one of the most important robotics companies in the world.”

We’ll be sharing livestreams and updates from the US and Singapore over the next couple of weeks. Want to catch behind-the-scenes previews? Join us on Discord at discord.gg/aukiverse for private chats and sneak peeks before they go public.

Stay tuned — we’re just getting started.

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About Auki Labs

Auki is building the Auki network, a decentralized machine perception network for the next 100 billion people, devices and AI on Earth and beyond. The Auki network is a posemesh, an external and collaborative sense of space that machines and AI can use to understand the physical world.

Our mission is to improve civilization’s intercognitive capacity; our ability to think, experience and solve problems together with each other and AI. The greatest way to extend human reach is to collaborate with others. We are building consciousness-expanding technology to reduce the friction of communication and bridge minds.

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About the Auki network

The Auki network is a posemesh: a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol, designed to allow digital devices to securely and privately exchange spatial data and computing power to form a shared understanding of the physical world.

The Auki network is an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized, blockchain-based spatial computing network. Designed for a future where spatial computing is both collaborative and privacy-preserving, it limits any organization's surveillance capabilities and encourages sovereign ownership of private maps of personal and public spaces.

The decentralization also offers a competitive advantage, especially in shared spatial computing sessions, AR for example, where low latency is crucial.

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