September 17th message, developmentHumanoid Robotof Figure AI The company's in a roundFinancingIt received over $1 billion in committed capital (note: the current exchange rate is about RMB 71.2.1 billion), which brings the company ' s valuation to $39 billion (the current exchange rate is about RMB 27,77.16 billion). If this deal is reached, the company will be among the most valuable start-ups。
This round of financing was officially announced on Tuesday, and has actually advanced for most of this year. In February, Bloomberg reported that Figure was in the process of negotiating financing with investors, when it was planned to raise $1.5 billion with an assessment of $39.5 billion。
The financing was led by the existing investor Parkway Venture Capital, with other investors including Brookefield Asset Management, Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Inc., Macquarie Capital and Allign Ventures. In addition, the venture capital sector of Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. also participated in the financing。
Figure, founded in 2022, has become one of the most concerned start-ups in this field, thanks to the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology in recent years, which have focused on developing robots that look and move closer to humans. The company had previously stated that its ambitious goal was to create a human robot with a universal function - Such robots can reason and learn like humans。
In last year's round, Figure's valuation was only $2.6 billion. Previously, the company had received financial support from a number of prominent investors, including Microsoft Corp., OpenAI and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc。