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Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life. observed
↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (29% of the score).
Cross-source signals that survived the scoring gauntlet or were hand-curated. ✓ verified = bound to an exact transcript passage with a voiceprint-confirmed speaker.
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The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.
If the founder tweets, you know, this is not a test and the BMW says it isn't, it is a test. Then the person who bought the shares at 39 billion can get a lawyer and then say, Hey, I want my money back because you said it wasn't a test. BMW said it is. That is the ultimate, ultimate way you can buy shares in a company with an option to get your money back.
Like BMW is their number one customer. Right. This raise is happening because of that BMW relationship. When you look at those SPVs, the people investing in the SPVs, are investing because they're seeing those tweets from the founder.
figure at 39 billion does not make a lot of sense to me. That's a pre revenue company, right? Yep. So that's the one that stands out.
they did a conversation so it did voice recognition of him asking i need some i want something to eat the robot assessed what's on the table and i guess assumed the only thing edible on the table is the apple
The Figure O2, its second generation robot, was announced in August, and it's already done some testing inside of a BMW factory, so it actually has some on-the-job experience.
Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Manhattan Venture Partners, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Samsung.
they have raised, by my understanding, about $854 million for this project.
hosting their code for others to you hosting it yeah so you know just like wordpress like you could literally take the wordpress code put up a server and do all that but if you want the latest version you want faster servers you want somebody doing the security and the operations and upgrading it and installing the patches you just go with the hosted version and the cost of you uh managing your own reflection ai servers uh if you're doing something small to mid-size is greater than having the re
they raised two billion at an eight billion dollar valuation that's a massive 15x jump from the 545 million dollar valuation they clocked just seven months ago that's according to tech crunch uh the company was founded in march 2024 by former google staffers including misha laskin who led reward modeling for deep minds gemini project and ianis and tanaglu who co-created alpha go so they are very similar to what deep seek's doing they're building open source ai models they're trying to make them
great to see more american open source ai models a meaningful segment of the global market will prefer the cost customizability and control of the open source that open source offers we want the us to win this category too
they have great recommendation algorithms already built into spotify
i think the the best done integration the other ones were impressive but i think spotify has a great ui
good job by the team over at spotify and um yeah i will say that spotify was
i love this because one of my first use cases when using these llms was to say hey i'm a big fan of mark knoffler and uh what other artists would be similar and it told me about this artist chris ray and then i got into chris ray and went down that rabbit hole and it never made that connection for me on spotify so they must have ingested all of this information or all the information on the web and then they've normalized it and you can take action
it's amazing you can give it like three or four very granular instructions and it will follow so i was like find me the most popular songs that appeared originally on 90s movie soundtracks and don't include any other songs that i have on any other playlist and like instantly it followed all those instructions so you can really like start thinking layers deep about what kinds of music you want it to find and it'll find it for you it's pretty cool
so you're able to connect with the different applications as i mentioned canva xpedia directly to chat gpt simply by using the at symbol and then typing that company name and then it'll know that you're trying to use that app so here i'm enabling the connections connecting to figma you had to download your account and have it open kind of on your screen so the first kind of example i did was spotify so i kind of had the example of some co-workers wanted a playlist from me so i went into chat gpt
free no respect no respect for the subscribers i get no respect for putting my credit card in
does it's just what they did with sora it's just what they did with sora they bypassed the paid level and they just started giving it to people with invites for
wait why why would they launch it i guess i have my personal account here but why would they launch it not to business users first and give it to the free users it makes no sense
open ai has actually introduced integrations of various apps inside chat gpt so you can interact it's almost like the first level of agentic ai to come to chat gpt you can use chat gpt to actually effect changes and do things in various connected apps
VentureSignalScore 76.8/100 for figure, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.79 for 30% signal coverage
| Component | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 0.9726 |
funding.round.amount_usd 2024-10-11 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
Form D filings — the company's own authoritative record of a Reg D private raise, filed with the SEC. Primary-source evidence: not commentary, not inference. 4 filings, latest 2026-02-26.
Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 1015 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention · some SEC filings on record. ▲ 1015 Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015) 2017-03-19 ↗
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106", "title": "Apple's amusingly round reuse figures", "points": 205, "created_at": "2016-04-17", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106", "title": "Apple's amusingly round reuse figures", "points": 205, "created_at": "2016-04-17", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106", "title": "Apple's amusingly round reuse figures", "points": 205, "created_at": "2016-04-17", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-04-17 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106", "title": "Apple's amusingly round reuse figures", "points": 205, "created_at": "2016-04-17", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-04-17 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514106", "title": "Apple's amusingly round reuse figures", "points": 205, "created_at": "2016-04-17", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-04-17 | normalized | 0.20 |
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community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881", "title": "Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)", "points": 1015, "created_at": "2017-03-19"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881", "title": "Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)", "points": 1015, "created_at": "2017-03-19"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-03-19 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881", "title": "Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)", "points": 1015, "created_at": "2017-03-19"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-03-19 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881", "title": "Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)", "points": 1015, "created_at": "2017-03-19"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-03-19 | normalized | 0.20 |
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description | Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-24 | normalized | 0.70 |
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