Figure AI commits $1B to global crowdsourced robotics data pipeline
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-26
Figure AI's Helix engine has evolved into a global data pipeline. The project has collected over 16 million human video uploads across 108 countries and paid $15 million to contributors. Figure committed $1 billion to data and compute for Helix. This global crowdsourcing and reward model resembles Bittensor.
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