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Brett Adcock Profile picture
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Feb 29, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Excited to share: Figure raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation

+ OpenAI & Figure signed a collaboration agreement to develop next generation AI models for robots

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@Figure_robot @OpenAI $675M Series B investments from:

- Microsoft
- OpenAI Startup Fund
- NVIDIA
- Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions)
- Parkway Venture Capital
- Intel Capital
- Align Ventures
In addition, OpenAI & Figure signed a collaboration agreement to develop next generation AI models for humanoid robots

The collaboration aims to help accelerate Figure’s commercial timeline by enhancing the capabilities of humanoid robots to process and reason from language
We will be using this investment to ramping up Figure’s timeline for humanoid commercial deployment and will be used for:

- AI training
- Manufacturing
- Deploying more robots
- Expanding engineering headcount
- Advancing commercial deployment efforts
Last month we showed Figure 01 making coffee only using neural networks

Learned end-to-end visuomotor policy mapping onboard images to actions at 200Hz

We’re excited to be pushing the limited of robot learning with OpenAI

We are scaling up our AI training:

Figure will leverage Microsoft Azure for AI infrastructure, training, and storage

Excited to partner with OpenAI and Microsoft to bring embodied AI to the real world

Interested in joining our team? Apply here: figure.ai/careers
If you're interested in AI robotics, follow our journey: @Figure_robot

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Mar 23
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu, xAI, Mistral, Roblox, Google, Boston Dynamics and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
At GTC 2025, Nvidia announced:

—DGX Spark: The world's smallest AI computer with 128GB memory
—DGX Station: 20 petaflops with 72 CPU cores for data scientists & researchers
—Next-gen GPUs: Blackwell Ultra (2025), Vera Rubin (2026-27), and Feynman (2028)
Nvidia also shared two big developments for robotics:

—GR00T N1: An open foundation model for training robots that can interpret their environment, reason, and act
—Newton: An open physics engine to simulate robotic movements in the real world
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Mar 16
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Google, OpenAI, Figure, Scout AI, Reka, Vexa Robotics, UCSF, Tencent, Dobot, Luma Labs, and more

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
Google dropped two AI models to advance robotics with interactivity, dexterity, and generalization:

—Gemini Robotics, a VLA model, handles unfamiliar tasks like spelling words with scrabble tiles
—Gemini Robotics ER brings enhanced spatial reasoning
OpenAI released new tools for building custom enterprise agents, including a Responses API with tools for web search, computer use, and file search

There's also open-source Agents SDK to orchestrate single and multi-agent systems
Read 18 tweets
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Mar 15
Today I'm excited to introduce: BotQ

BotQ, Figure's manufacturing facility, is the highest volume humanoid production line in the world

Initially designed to produce 12,000 robots/year, it will scale to support a fleet of 100,000
The Figure hardware & manufacturing team has been hard at work designing this for the last 8 months

We’ve integrated automation and high-volume manufacturing techniques to design a high-rate production line

This is hardcore engineering at its finest
Today, we're sharing a detailed write-up on BotQ's manufacturing plans

BotQ's first-gen production line is capable of 12,000 humanoids per year

From here, we plan to grow our fleet to 100,000 robots within four years
figure.ai/news/botq
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Mar 9
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Microsoft, Manus, Boston Dynamics, Anthropic, Perplexity, Cortical Labs, Sanctuary AI, Alibaba, ASLP Labs, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
Microsoft launched 'Dragon Copilot', an AI assistant for healthcare

It merges voice dictation with ambient listening to handle clinical documentation and surface relevant information

They're claiming it's already saving clinicians ~5 min/patient
A Chinese startup went viral for Manus, its fully autonomous AI agent—handling real-world tasks independently

It achieves SOTA performance on agentic benchmarks and performs tasks like financial transactions, research, and purchasing simultaneously
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Mar 2
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Figure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Physical Intelligence, Apptronik, Georgia Tech, Inception Labs, Nomagic, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
With our in-house end-to-end robotics AI Helix, Figure enabled its second customer use case (logistics-focused) in just 30 days

We also announced sport mode, which boosts execution speed by 50%
Helix is advancing faster than any of us anticipated

Therefore, we've accelerated our timeline of bringing Figure robots into the home by 2 years

Alpha testing starts this year
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Feb 23
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Figure, xAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Clone Robotics, Perplexity, Humane, Stanford, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
First, a quick update on these threads:

Starting today, I’ll be excluding all robot updates that are TeleOperated by a human with the intention of tricking you it’s autonomous

It's misleading for the general public and not fair to those making real end-to-end progress
We introduced Helix at Figure, a new AI Vision-Language-Action model that helps humanoids think like a human would

The model lets robots understand voice commands and handle items they've never seen before

In the limit, Figure is an AI business
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