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On January 18 2024 Figure announced a partnership with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in automotive manufacturing facilities. [5] In February 2024, Figure AI secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a consortium that includes Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon and OpenAI.
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding. Annie Palmer, CNBC. ... Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks ...
The AI models Figure develops will be based on OpenAI's latest GPT models, and specifically trained on robotics actions data that Figure has collected so that its humanoid robots can talk with ...
Figure is building a humanoid robot that can do autonomous human-like tasks. [43] In February 2024, Figure secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a consortium that included OpenAI, Microsoft, Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Intel. [44] [45] In August 2024, Figure revealed their second generation humanoid robot Figure 02.
The announcement cited that Altman "was not consistently candid in his communications" in a public announcement on the OpenAI blog. [53] [52] In response, Brockman resigned from his role as President of OpenAI. [54] The day after Altman was removed, The Verge reported that Altman and the board were in talks to bring him back to OpenAI. [55]
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based ...
Figure AI, also backed by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, is raising about $675 million in a funding round that carries a pre-money valuation of about $2 billion, according to the report.
Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco. In December 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs.