Ex-OpenAI executive Bob McGrew launches Arda to accelerate US manufacturing

Arda helps other companies rapidly advance agile manufacturing of complex products at scale and then adapt those products dynamically to global shifts OpenAI’s former research chief has been working in stealth mode on a venture to reintroduce manufacturing to the US using AI. Primarily, Bob McGrew’s newest company, Arda has significantly raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. Arda makes AI software to help automate industrial manufacturing. According to McGrew who was also a Palantir's veteran product lead for over a decade, it has already been deployed with military tech company Andril. McGrew told CNBC: “It’s a user interface and an agent that does for manufacturing engineers what Claude or Cursor does for programmers.” “When a design changes, you can retrain a human in a day — but it…