Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock promised to deliver “something no one has ever seen on a humanoid” in the next 30 days.

“We found that to solve embodied AI at scale in the real world, you have to vertically integrate robot AI.”

“We can’t outsource AI for the same reason we can’t outsource our hardware.”

Figure AI, a robotics company working to bring a general-purpose humanoid robot into commercial and residential use, announced Tuesday on X that it is exiting a deal with OpenAI. The Bay Area-based outfit has instead opted to focus on in-house AI owing to a “major breakthrough.” In conversation with TechCrunch afterward, founder and CEO Brett Adcock was tightlipped in terms of specifics, but he promised to deliver “something no one has ever seen on a humanoid” in the next 30 days.

100,000 bots?!

“It gives us potential to ship at high volumes which will drive cost reduction and AI data collection. Between both customers, we believe there is a path to 100,000 robots over the next four years.”

My opinion: Figure is superior to Tesla

Figure AI had launched its first humanoid, Figure 1, just 31 months after incorporation and subsequently shipped Figure 02.

Dangerous solar blast detected at Mars by Chinese Orbiter in new episode of Robots In Space!.

Join aerospace engineer Mike DiVerde as he breaks down groundbreaking research on Mars radiation from multiple space missions. This comprehensive analysis combines data from Tianwen-1, MAVEN, ExoMars, and the Curiosity rover to understand the dangerous Solar Energetic Particles affecting Mars. Learn why radiation protection is crucial for future Mars colonization and astronaut safety and discover how space weather impacts potential Mars habitats. DiVerde explains complex space science concepts in an accessible way, drawing from recent research that highlights the challenges of keeping humans safe on Mars. Essential viewing for anyone interested in Mars exploration and the future of human space missions.

Bloomberg on the Economic Singularity:

“If AI is about to get much cheaper, the path to an answer on its economic impact is going to get shorter. For workers nervously wondering if large language models will make their skills redundant, a lot is riding on which camp is right.”

For investors in artificial intelligence, the last week delivered a painful shock. The sudden appearance of DeepSeek — a Chinese AI firm boasting a world-class model developed at bargain-basement costs — triggered a massive selloff in Nvidia and other US tech champions.

What matters for the economy, though, is not the ups and downs of stock prices for the Magnificent Seven, but whether AI drives gains in productivity, and how those gains are divided up. For all the excitement, and the trillion-dollar valuations for AI firms, evidence of a boost to productivity remains thin on the ground.

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More than 10X… 57X faster!

Exponential growth!

Cerebras Systems announced today it will host DeepSeek’s breakthrough R1 artificial intelligence model on U.S. servers, promising speeds up to 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions while keeping sensitive data within American borders. The move comes amid growing concerns about China’s rapid AI advancement and data privacy.

The AI chip startup will deploy a 70-billion-parameter version of DeepSeek-R1 running on its proprietary wafer-scale hardware, delivering 1,600 tokens per second — a dramatic improvement over traditional GPU implementations that have struggled with newer “reasoning” AI models.

Although Chinese AI, such as DeepSeek, might torpedo American megatech, the advent of vanishingly tiny costs might lead us further up that exponential curve to Superabundance.

S V3 model, DeepSeek-V2, triggered an AI model price war in China after it was released last May. ‘ + The fact that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly cheap, only 1 yuan.

($0.14) per 1 million tokens

S cloud unit announcing price cuts of up to 97% on a range of models. ‘.

China has unveiled 2 inexpensive open-source technologies that might change the world. DeepSeek is open-source generative AI which appears to be performing as well as frontrunners like Anthropic’s Claude. Engine AI is open-source robotics, which has a natural walking gait. If you combine these two elements together, the recipe creates either the rancid fish pie of the Economic Singularity or the delicious blueberry cheesecake of Superabundance. “One of the year’s most interesting tech stories is in full swing. A Chinese startup called DeepSeek released R1, an open-source artificial intelligence model that’s sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and beyond.” s competitive robotics market by offering cost-effective solutions.”” + https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250121PD213/robot-nvidia-s…-2024.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/callumbooth/2025/01/27/deepseek…-internet/ https://youtu.be/B4YcuN5maD8?si=4a7YtUj1KchxQlXG Open source bot: https://github.com/engineai-robotics/engineai_humanoid

Shenzhen-based startup Engine AI recently released a demo video of its SE01 humanoid robot, highlighting its remarkably lifelike walking gait. The video earned praise from a senior Nvidia scientist. Engine AI aims to penetrate China’s competitive robotics market by offering cost-effective solutions.

China’s viral robot video sparks debate and validation.

Open source and cheap DeepSeek means generative AI can push the exponential progress even faster. It runs on laptops!

“…digest the significance of DeepSeek’s AI reasoning model R1 published fully open-source last week…”

Yet R1 suggests that the thesis may be wrong.

Within no time, DeepSeek’s free-to-download app has https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c…1-27/” rel=“noopener” class=””>rocketed to the top of the App Store charts.

THE ECONOMIC SINGULARITY IN 2 TO 3 YEARS.

“My guess is that by 2026 or 2027, we will have AI systems that are broadly better than almost all humans at almost all things,” Amodei (Anthropic CEO) said at the event.

Enter the new era of AI coworkers.