Figure AI Drops OpenAI to Focus on In-House Models
Source: the-decoder.com Figure AI Ends Collaboration with OpenAI Figure AI, a Bay Area-based robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots, has announced its decision to terminate its partnership with OpenAI. The company revealed the news on Tuesday via a post on X, citing a “breakthrough” in its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Figure AI’s CEO, Brett Adcock, provided limited details about the decision but promised that the company would unveil a significant advancement in humanoid robotics within the next 30 days. The decision to part ways with OpenAI comes as a surprise, given the earlier collaboration between the two firms. Last year, Figure AI secured a $675 million investment, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, with OpenAI among its backers. The partnership aimed to integrate OpenAI’s AI models into Figure’s humanoid robots, particularly for natural language processing. However, Figure AI has now shifted its focus toward developing a proprietary A...