Paid articlePaywallBezos backs AI chipmaker vying with Nvidia at $2.6 billion value:
Tenstorrent hopes to create a chip to try and break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI business.
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- Today Figure confirmed rumors of raising significant funding, announcing a $675 million Series B round valuing the startup at $2.6 billion.
- Founder Brett Adcock initially invested $100 million, with an additional $70 million last May. The focus is on developing humanoid robots for industry, with funds geared towards accelerating market entry.
- Figure set an ambitious goal to create a walking bipedal robot within a year. The partnership with OpenAI aims to enhance humanoid robots' capabilities, particularly in natural language processing.
- Microsoft, OpenAI, and other notable investors have backed Figure to advance humanoid robot development for various applications, including warehouses.
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