Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Figure for the week ending September 4, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Vertical psychedelic screen-print gig poster of a humanoid bipedal robot striding forward out of a swirling spiral portal, its metallic limbs trailing ribbons of op-art linework and melting concentric patterns, framed by a harvest moon and falling autumn leaves in an ornate border, with the word 'Figure' arched above in bold hand-lettered 1960s Fillmore-style psychedelic title lettering. Flat ink layers in electric magenta, acid orange, deep teal, and cream paper stock with a lime green pop, slight registration offset and visible paper texture. Intricate linework busy at the edges, calmer around the title so the category name pops.
This Week in Figure News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- A $3.5 billion compute bet: Figure announced a partnership with cloud provider Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs. It is committing $3.5 billion initially, with plans to scale beyond $6 billion. Brett Adcock said shipping a robot into every home needs massive compute.
- Scaling Helix: Corey Lynch framed the deal as scaling Helix, Figure's AI system, on those GPUs. He tied the goal of a general purpose robot in every home to massive scale in both data and compute.
- Vertical integration: Adcock said Figure is highly vertically integrated, with robot hardware design, AI models and manufacturing all done on its campus. One outside post said Figure has built 1,000+ humanoids and deployed robots at BMW, and put its valuation at $39B.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Figure
Humanoid robots are the ultimate deployment vector for AGI Figure will soon have unprecedented data and compute. We’re hiring so come join us
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2095555087510937751
This is good for everyone building and open source. Congrats @JensenHuang and @ClementDelangue
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2095603232458567917
Today, Figure is partnering with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform We’re committing $3.5 billion initially, with plans to scale beyond $6 billion To ship a robot into every home, we need a massive amount of compute
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2095499534940185022
Training general-purpose humanoids will need unprecedented compute capacity, and Figure is stacking the chips. Figure, with cloud partner Nscale, is deploying up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs. It’s committing $3.5 billion initially, with plans to scale to $6+ billion.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2095554390933549068
Congrats to Parkway Venture Capital for #1 on the emerging VC ranking! Parkway was the first to back Figure and has been a great partner
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2094886658625994978
Four years ago, @Figure_robot didn’t even have a robot. Today, it’s valued at $39B, has built 1,000+ humanoids, deployed robots at BMW, built its own AI models, manufacturing infrastructure and a global data collection network. What impresses me most is the speed. Figure isn’t
https://x.com/Biti8888/status/2094400910722048216
Putting an intelligent, general purpose robot in every home will require massive scale in both data and compute. Today, Figure announced a $3.5 billion deal to scale Helix 🧬 to up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs. There’s never been a better time to join Figure.
https://x.com/coreylynch/status/2095544202797179223
That figure comes from multiplying current monthly ad revenue by 12, so it’s a snapshot of where things stand today rather than money already booked over a full year.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2094523148813074885
20 years in. See you in 20 more
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2095365282059673783
fwiw, one thing that really helps: Figure is crazy vertically integrated. Robot hardware design, AI models, manufacturing, all done on our campus
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2094462666798723307
I’m watching Helix doing things you wouldn’t believe Figure is going all-in
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2095627318593229050
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