{"id":28851,"date":"2025-02-15T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28851"},"modified":"2025-02-15T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:15:46","slug":"%e4%b8%8e-openai%e5%88%86%e6%89%8b%e5%90%8e%ef%bc%8c%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e4%ba%ba%e5%bd%a2%e6%9c%ba%e5%99%a8%e4%ba%ba%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8-figure-%e6%96%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28851.html","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid Robotics Startup Figure Valued at $39.5 Billion After New Funding Round After 'Breakup' With OpenAI, Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- On Feb. 14, local time, according to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, robotics startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/figure\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Figure<\/a> AI is in talks with investors and plans to<strong>Mobilizing $1.5 billion<\/strong>(Note: Currently approximately RMB 10,898 million)<strong>capital<\/strong>The company will be valued at $39.5 billion (currently around Rs. 286.983 billion) after the financing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28852\" title=\"a186d8b5j00srq7hc005jd000v900hkp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a186d8b5j00srq7hc005jd000v900hkp.jpg\" alt=\"a186d8b5j00srq7hc005jd000v900hkp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the rapid development of AI technology, tech giants such as NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla, and several startups are stepping up their research and development of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%bd%a2%e6%9c%ba%e5%99%a8%e4%ba%ba\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [humanoid robot]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Humanoid Robot<\/a>The company aims to drive innovation in robotics and automation technology using advanced AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Companies expect humanoid robots to be able to cope with possible future labor shortages and take on some of the<strong>Repetitive work that is both dangerous and monotonous<\/strong>, such as logistics, warehousing and manufacturing. Customers of Figure AI reportedly include BMW of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the startup announced<strong>Successful financing of $675 million<\/strong>(currently approximately RMB 4,904 million), with major investors including\u00a0<strong>OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos<\/strong>The company is valued at $2.6 billion (currently around RMB 18.89 billion) after the financing.<\/p>\n<p>Figure AI's founder and CEO, Brett Adcock, said last week that the company decided to<strong>Termination of Collaboration with OpenAI<\/strong>The company's AI technology has been a major breakthrough in robotics since its inception. He said on the X platform, \"Figure's AI models are developed entirely in-house, and external collaborations not only<strong>hassles<\/strong>furthermore<strong>It means nothing to our success.<\/strong>. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>It's not just Figure AI, but Meta has also been revealed to be starting a new team within its Reality Labs division focused on developing AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with manual labor.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk also said last year that Optimus, the company's humanoid robot, could be ready by the end of the following year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15 news, local time on the 14th, according to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, robotics startup Figure AI is in talks with investors, plans to raise 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (note: currently about 10.898 billion yuan) of funds, after financing the company's valuation will reach 39.5 billion U.S. dollars (currently about 286.983 billion yuan). With the rapid development of AI technology, tech giants such as NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla, and a number of startups are stepping up their research and development of humanoid robots, aiming to utilize advanced AI models to drive innovation in robotics and automation technology. The companies expect humanoid robots to be able to cope with possible future labor shortages and take on some of the repetitive tasks that are both dangerous and monotonous<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1343,907],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-figure","tag-907"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28851"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}