Figure AI severed its partnership with OpenAI in early 2025 after CEO Brett Adcock claimed a "major breakthrough" in robot intelligence made external AI partnerships unnecessary. Adcock stated: "It got to a point where we were just like, our team internally that was designing these models were running circles around OpenAI. We were just way better at this." The company reached a $39B valuation by September 2025.
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See all →Figure AI raised $675M in February 2024 from Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Intel, and Jeff Bezos with the explicit goal of developing humanoid robots to replace human workers in manufacturing. CEO Brett Adcock stated the company aims to "replace millions of workers" in dangerous or undesirable jobs. Current deployments at BMW fill vacancies rather than displacing existing workers.