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Humanoid robot manufacturer Figure has unveiled Helix, an advanced AI Vision-Language-Action model that enables robots to understand voice commands and manipulate unfamiliar objects, marking a significant leap toward practical household robots.

TODAY IN MORNING AI

• COO Brad Lightcap shared that OpenAI now boasts 400 million weekly active users

• NVIDIA has partnered with the American Society for Deaf Children

• Pika Labs launched Pika Swaps

• New System from Figure Sets the Stage for Smarter Household Robots

• AI fun fact

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COO Brad Lightcap shared that OpenAI now boasts 400 million weekly active users and 2 million paid enterprise customers, with developer engagement doubling over the past six months.

NVIDIA has partnered with the American Society for Deaf Children to introduce 'Signs', an AI-driven platform that offers real-time feedback for ASL learners, along with a dataset of 400,000 sign language video clips.

Pika Labs launched Pika Swaps, enabling users to easily replace any item or character in a scene using image or text prompts.

Spotify revealed its integration of ElevenLab’s AI voice technology, allowing authors to create and distribute AI-narrated content in 29 languages.

MIT researchers introduced 'FragFold', an AI system capable of predicting which protein fragments can bind to and inhibit target proteins, aiding in drug discovery and cellular biology.

AI DEVELOPMENT
New System from Figure Sets the Stage for Smarter Household Robots

Humanoid robot manufacturer Figure has unveiled Helix, an advanced AI Vision-Language-Action model that enables robots to understand voice commands and manipulate unfamiliar objects, marking a significant leap toward practical household robots.

Key highlights:

Helix integrates a 7B-parameter "brain" for comprehension with a quick 80M-parameter model for accurate movement control.

Figure demonstrated two robots collaborating to store groceries they had never encountered before, all through natural language commands.

The system runs efficiently on basic onboard GPUs and requires only 500 hours of training data, a fraction of what previous systems needed.

This breakthrough follows Figure's decision to part ways with OpenAI just weeks ago, signaling confidence in its proprietary technology.

Why it matters: While robots have already shown promise in industrial applications, humanoid robots are poised to play an essential role in household tasks. Figure’s scalable system brings us closer to having robots that can reliably navigate the unique messes and challenges of home environments.

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AI FUN FACT
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AI development is that the concept of artificial intelligence dates back to the 1950s, with Alan Turing's famous question, "Can machines think?" sparking the foundation for modern AI research. One of the earliest AI programs, the "Logic Theorist," created by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in 1955, was able to prove mathematical theorems, essentially laying the groundwork for the field!

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