Keep pulling the thread on Brett Adcock.
Solving the challenge of humanoid robotics will create the biggest business in the world by a large factor.
OpenAI led Figure's Series B funding round a couple of years ago.
Microsoft, with involvement from Satya Nadella, co-led Figure's Series B round alongside OpenAI.
Brett Adcock claims Figure's internal AI model team was significantly outperforming OpenAI's team on robotics-specific models, which led him to terminate their partnership.
Figure has a long-term goal to produce one million humanoid robot units per year.
Figure has raised nearly $2 billion in funding and was most recently valued at $39 billion.
Figure deployed a small batch of robots to a BMW facility for a six-month trial last year.
Figure expects to announce multiple new customer deployments within the next 90 days.
Brett Adcock acquired the intellectual property for Cover's technology from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab two years ago.
Jeff Bezos is a major investor in Figure.
Figure's goal is to be the first company to demonstrate capable artificial general intelligence (CAGI) in the physical world.
Human labor accounts for just under half of the world's GDP.