Figure CEO: filling Vietnam's brutal visa form was our AGI test — now an agent passed it
adcock_brett · x · 2026-10-07
Figure CEO Brett Adcock recalls that in 2025 he and Abidur joked that getting an AI through Vietnam's notoriously difficult visa website would count as AGI. Now their agent product handles it, with extra engineering effort put into the Handoff flow to make it work.
Related event: Figure CEO Launches Hark Pro Agent, Testing It on Vietnam Visa Site(2 posts)→
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