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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

Below are the details: Image
@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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Feb 20
Introducing Helix, our newest AI that thinks like a human

To bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities

Helix can generalize to any household item 🧵
We've been working on this project for over a year, aiming to solve general robotics

Like a human, Helix understands speech, reasons through problems, and can grasp any object - all without needing training or code

In testing, Helix can grab almost any household object!
New Scaling for Humanoid Robotics

Coding your way of this won't work, we simply need a step-change in capabilities to scale to a billion-unit robot level

To be successful in dynamic environments such as the home, robots must to able to generalize on-demand Image
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Feb 16
Another big week of AI and Robotics news.

So, I summarized everything announced by Booster Robotics, Adobe, OpenAI, Figure, ByteDance, Google, Perplexity, Apptronik, Humanoid, Mentee Robotics, and more

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
China's Booster Robotics shared its T1 robot's shock test

The 4ft-tall T1 can be seen moving unfaltered after hammer, bottle, and wooden stick blows

They use high-strength metal and plastic to withstand impact here
Adobe released its Firefly Video Model in public beta (starting at $9.99/mo)

It can generate 1080p videos from text/images, with camera control, shot framing, and motion graphics

What makes it different is it's trained on licensed and public content
Read 17 tweets
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Feb 9
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Nvidia, OpenAI, ByteDance, Google, Figure, Mistral, Replit, Borg, Apple, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted ASAP, an AI framework that lets humanoids learn complex moves from simulations

In tests, ASAP enabled Unitree G1 to recreate APT dance and iconic moves of LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo
OpenAI added Deep Research in ChatGPT to do extensive web analysis on complex topics and deliver research reports in under 30min

It uses a specialized version of o3 to analyze text, images, and PDFs across sources

Only available to Pro users right now
Read 15 tweets
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Feb 2
Tons of AI and robotics news this week.

So I summarized everything from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Figure, Unitree, Google, Microsoft, BridgeP, Alibaba, Mistral, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
Chinese startup DeepSeek dropped an open-source image-generation model, Janus-Pro

It tops DALL-E 3 and StabIe Diffusion in image quality and accuracy benchmarks

Another big move for open source, regardless of the R1 controversy
OpenAI released its latest small reasoning AI, o3-mini

Available via ChatGPT and API, the model is 24% faster than the o1-mini and 93% cheaper than the much larger o1 model

Also available for ChatGPT free users, with some limits
Read 16 tweets
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Jan 30
Excited to share: Figure has signed our 2nd commercial customer

We now see potential of shipping 100,000 humanoid robots

Next steps 🧵 Image
We have 2 focuses internally: Commercial Market & the Home

On the commercial side, our strategy is to stay focused on a small number of clients

Early on, it’s more efficient for us to grow vertically within a few clients than to spread out across many
We signed our first commercial customer, BMW, a year ago and currently have a fleet of robots performing end-to-end operations
Read 7 tweets
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Jan 26
Huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, Perplexity, Deep Robotics, Lumos Robotics, Unitree, ByteDance and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
OpenAI launched Operator, an AI agent that uses the web to complete everyday tasks

It uses 4o's vision with advanced reasoning and is available as part of ChatGPT's $200/mo Pro plan

OpenAI's first big step in the agentic era
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released an open reasoning model that matches OpenAI's o1 while costing just 5-10% of its API price

DeepSeek-R1 uses pure RL and beats o1 on AIME, MATH-500, and SWE-bench Verified

Huge win for open-source and overall AI progress
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