Figure AI
- OpenAI has partnered with Figure AI, a startup developing humanoid robots.
- OpenAI said the agreement would open up new pathways for robots to "help in everyday life."
- Figure announced that it had raised $675 million, which it said valued the company at $2.6 billion.
OpenAI is betting big on humanoid robots.
The ChatGPT creator has signed a collaboration agreement with Figure AI to "develop next-generation AI models" for the robots as it believes they can "help in everyday life."
In a press release shared with Business Insider, Figure said the deal aimed to help "accelerate Figure's commercial timeline" by enhancing the capabilities of its robots to "process and reason from language" using OpenAI's research and large multimodal models.