Figure now processes 81 minutes of video per second, built 'a startup within a startup'
coreylynch · x · 2026-10-24
Figure says it now processes frontier-level video volumes of 81 minutes per second for robot training. CEO Brett Adcock revealed the effort required building an entire pretraining startup within a startup, with daily standups for 6 months. The company is hiring.
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