OpenAI Quietly Acquires Robotics Startup in $4.2B Deal — Largest in Company History
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OpenAI announced the all-stock acquisition of humanoid robotics company Figure AI for $4.2 billion, the largest deal in OpenAI's history. The move folds Figure's hardware platform into OpenAI's foundation models, giving the company a direct path into industrial and consumer robotics. Sam Altman called it "the moment AI gets a body."
OpenAI is no longer just a software company — the AI race is moving into the physical world.
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OpenAI shut down its internal robotics division in 2020 to focus on language models. The…
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