Figure commits $3.5B for compute targeting 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs — physical intelligence as a scaling problem
VraserX · x · 2026-09-04
Humanoid robot company Figure has committed $3.5B for compute, with a path to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. The takeaway: the robot body may increasingly become the easy part, as physical intelligence turns into a foundation-model scaling problem.
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