GBDR Meet Up With Grant Hosking
Glad to meet with Grant Hosking, a Figure AI board member with Chinese investors and family official
Figure AI is an innovative and promising company in the field of humanoid robotics.
• Established at Sunnyvale, California, the United States
• February 2024: Completed Series B financing, obtaining approximately $675 million in financing from companies such as NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft, with a valuation of $2.6 billion.
• 2025: Launched Series C financing, with a target financing amount of $1.5 billion and an estimated valuation of about $39.5 billion.
Technologies and Products
• Helix Model: Released in 2025, it is the first vision-language-action model that can perform high-frequency, continuous control of the entire upper body of a humanoid robot. It enables whole-body control, multi-robot collaboration, grasping of any object, and local operation.
• February 4, 2025: The founder announced the termination of the cooperation with OpenAI, stating that significant breakthroughs had been made in the fully self-developed end-to-end robotic AI.
