{"id":183510,"date":"2024-02-24T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/figure-ais-humanoid-robots-attract-funding-from-microsoft-nvidia-openai-and-jeff-bezos"},"modified":"2024-02-24T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:22:56","slug":"figure-ais-humanoid-robots-attract-funding-from-microsoft-nvidia-openai-and-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/figure-ais-humanoid-robots-attract-funding-from-microsoft-nvidia-openai-and-jeff-bezos","title":{"rendered":"Figure AI\u2019s humanoid robots attract funding from Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/429QC4Yl-mA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Figure AI eyes a $1.9 billion valuation as Microsoft and OpenAI show interest in its life-saving robots<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure AI, a startup developing human-like robots, is in talks to secure up to $500 million in a funding round potentially led by Microsoft and OpenAI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company is looking to attract additional investors, with Microsoft potentially investing $95 million and OpenAI contributing $5 million. The deal could value Figure AI at $1.9 billion before pre-financing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure AI eyes a $1.9 billion valuation as Microsoft and OpenAI show interest in its life-saving robots Figure AI, a startup developing human-like robots, is in talks to secure up to $500 million in a funding round potentially led by Microsoft and OpenAI. The company is looking to attract additional investors, with Microsoft potentially investing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}