Figure, SIMA, & Devin, What a Week in AI!

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AI Research of the Week: Figure and Google Jump into the Robot Craze

Leaders: After Devin, the World Might Never be the Same Again

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🤩 AI Research of the week 🤩

This week, we have witnessed a great leap in robotics from three fronts, Figure AI’s talking robot, Google’s generalistic agent SIMA, and Devin the AI software engineer from Cognition Labs, the latter of which takes up this week’s complete Leaders segment.

Thus, in today’s research of the week, we are focusing on Figure and SIMA.

They are far from being at the human level, meaning that some lavish claims like ‘this is AGI’ are unsubstantiated, but with AI it’s always not about what these things are capable of now, but what they will become and, in my view, we are seeing the first baby steps of AI embodied intelligence.

Embodying GPT-4

So, what is Figure AI?

Figure AI is a robotics company that is building robots to, in the words of the CEO, “eliminate the need for unsafe and undesirable jobs, allowing future generations to live happier, more purposeful lives.”

You’ve probably heard of similar companies, but when OpenAI, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, and Intel all invest in a series round of $675 million at a $2.6 billion valuation for a company with no products on the market, you know they are on to something.

But why is everyone talking about this company? Well, it’s because of this video.

I highly recommend you click on that link, but long story short it’s a robot that interacts with a human and, whilst doing so, performs several actions with great dexterity.

At the core of Figure AI’s robot sits none other than GPT-4V, OpenAI’s flagship Multimodal Large Language Model, or MLLM.

In other words, Figure AI’s robot is the first time we have seen…

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