Figure built a secret HQ lab called Blackbox; Adcock calls new model "baby AGI"
adcock_brett · x · 2026-10-25
Figure founder Brett Adcock revealed the company built a secret testing home inside its HQ, dubbed Blackbox, to evaluate its frontier models. He described the newest model as "baby AGI" and the most significant moment he's had in robotics, saying it was trained last month with the most pre-training data and GPUs in Figure's history — with an even larger model ready within weeks.
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