Brett Adcock
Founder & CEO, Figure AI. On 5 shows, 9 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Brett Adcock is a tech entrepreneur focused on embodied artificial intelligence and robotics. He founded humanoid robotics company Figure AI, co-founded the electric aviation company Archer Aviation, and co-founded hiring platform Vettery.
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9appearances
179statements
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3contradicted
86%fully supported
69said about them ↓ Everything Brett Adcock said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Adcock claims Figure's internal AI team was running circles around OpenAI
“It got to a point where we were just like, our team internally that was designing these models were running circles around OpenAI. We were just way better at this. And we were better about testing on the robots, training the models, like all, all of it.”
Brett Adcock says he terminated Figure's AI collaboration agreement with OpenAI
“And so I fired him.”
Adcock: The biggest company in 10-15 years will make AI humanoids
“So here at figure what's so, so at a high level, the biggest company, the next 1015 years in the world will be human, like AI powered humanoids. That like, that's for sure going to happen.”
Adcock: Trying to code humanoid robot behaviors is a complete dead end
“You basically can code your way out of this, and I think that's a full dead end, or you can run an AI-first strategy in the market, and that's what we do here at Figure.”
Adcock: Figure demonstration robots run purely autonomously with onboard Helix AI
“This is not tele-operated.
For sure not tele-operated.
No secret room.
these robots are running purely autonomously from an onboard AI policy called Helix running onboard the robot in the torso.”
Adcock: Figure plans to lease home humanoids for $400-$600 monthly
“The in-home, like, we have, we're not selling right now to the home. We want to sell here like, in the near term, and we want to sell the robot, like, for, like, hundreds of dollars a month, and as, like, somewhere like a car lease maybe, like, four or five, 6…”
Adcock: Figure is probably a few years ahead of all global competitors
“We think we're probably at this point a few years ahead of every big, everybody globally doing this.”
Boston Dynamics' Atlas was an unsafe, uncommercial research project, says Adcock
“And I think for humanoids, like, you know, the best we had four years ago was like a, you know, Boston Dynamics had a hydraulic humanoid called Atlas. It like dripped oils everywhere. It lasted like 20 minutes. It was like very big, very unsafe. You could neve…”
Adcock: AI Hardware and Humanoids Will Replace Phones and Computers
“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”
Adcock: Most humanoid competitors deceptively rely on human teleoperation in demos
“And what you're seeing now in the world is like, I would say most major competitor to us at this point are putting out most of their content and updates teleopt from a human. And I think it's like perhaps some of the most deceiving things I've ever seen.”
Adcock: Figure AI and the US lead all Chinese humanoid competitors
“The U.S., and particularly Figure, is ahead of every single Chinese company I've seen globally, of what I know publicly, in terms of capabilities. Like, watch the robot do advanced things with neural nets autonomously over long horizons. And the answer is, lik…”
Adcock: Meta's AI lab approach is going to collapse
“It's, like, the opposite of what Meta, I think Meta's doing that right now, right? Look at the Meta, like, a super intelligence lab. It's, like, you're putting, like, I mean, it's just gonna, it's just immediately gonna, it's gonna immediately collapse. It's n…”
Adcock: Goods and services prices will collapse toward zero with synthetic agents
“The prices of goods and services are, will slowly start collapsing, basically, anatomically approaching zero.”
Adcock: Hundreds of thousands of undetected guns enter US schools yearly
“Several 100,000 guns are being brought into schools in K to 12 every year in the U S and not found.”
Adcock: Independent Board Members Make Terrible Decisions Because They Lack Equity
“So you have like all these folks that have like no stock and no skin in the game coming in, trying to be impartial that are making the worst decisions I've ever seen. Like, it's just a fundamental issue with public companies. I fundamentally believe independen…”
Adcock: Everyone Moving Fast at OpenAI Is Going or Gone
“Everybody that's moved fast at OpenAI is gonna go, or is gone. Like, and they'll be left with folks that move slow, want to think about safety and all this stuff”
Adcock: OpenAI Will Suffer Unrecoverable Speed and Brand Damage
“And now open AI is going to have a
Massive issue with speed and brand and everything else, and it's going to be unrecoverable.
They're never going to be a recover from what happened.”
Adcock: Humanoid robotics is bigger and easier to scale than self-driving
“And so I think it's bigger than a self-driving industry and I think it's easier to scale it once it's working.”
Humanoid robots will not displace labor near-term due to massive shortages
“I think in like the near and medium case, we're really not going to be displacing that much labor. I think what we're seeing every day we're walking into a warehouse or manufacturing a retail scenario, they have a tremendous amount of unemployment. The turnove…”
Adcock: Figure robots run entirely on Helix vision-language-action model
“You can't write code to make this work. So all of our robots here run on a neural network we call Helix. It's a vision language action model we designed here internally to tell the robot what to go do, to stay balanced, like how to move its joints basically fr…”
Adcock: Figure's data collection will generalize across global environments
“Our hypothesis now is that we will see enormous amount of positive transfer from the data collection efforts we're doing now into pre-training across, like, basically any environment in the world.”
Adcock: AGI might be achieved first in humanoid robotic embodiments
“So in some way I think we'll get to at or even beyond human level intelligence in these systems. It actually might be the case that we get to artificial general intelligence first in these embodiments.”
Adcock: Real-world interaction data is the missing piece to true AGI
“Because we're able to, like, this interaction data of, like, touching the world and seeing what happens through trial and error is, like it basically most of human intelligence is built this way, and I think this is, like, the last missing piece to get the tru…”
Adcock: Figure will reach full lights-out manufacturing where robots build robots
“At some point here, it'll just be like it'll just be full lights out manufacturing. We'll have like robots only building robots and sending out to the world. Robots will be getting into boxes themselves. Other robots will be boxing them up and we'll be shippin…”
The other half of the tape: Brett Adcock's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 60 times in 21 episodes across the shows. 9 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Brett Adcock invested $200M of his personal wealth into a new startup
“He's told me he took basically two hundred million dollars and he's put all of it into his new company. And still to this day, he goes, the only stock that I own is Archer and my house.”
Sam Parr: Figure raised $600M at a $2.5B–$3B valuation
“I think they raised six hundred million dollars at a two and a half or three billion dollar valuation, I think.”
Sam Parr: Brett Adcock put ~$200M of personal capital into humanoid robotics
“He made a lot of money when he sold his company called Vetteri for a hundred million dollars. Then he created, Vetteri is like a recruiting company. It's not sexy. But then he created a flying drone company that he took public called Archer. It was worth two o…”
Brett Adcock funded Cover.ai with $10 million of his own money
“He has now since licensed it. And he's funded Cover.ai with ten million dollars of his own money. And he's hired a team of NASA engineers to build technology, to build this stuff out.”
Lieberman: Brett Adcock Invested First Exit Proceeds Into Archer and $100M Into Figure
“Like I think of like Brett, Brett Adcock, who took all of the money from his first exit put it into his second company, which was an electric vertical takeoff and landing business called Archer. Then he took a hundred million dollars from that business and put…”
Sam Parr: Brett Adcock sold Vettery for $100M and took Archer public at $2B
“So this guy named Brett Adcock, he started this thing called Vetteri, which was a marketplace for talent, but it was very much like hired. So if you're an engineer, you go through all these tests, they kind of like algorithmically and kind of manually match yo…”
Parr: Brett Adcock is investing $200M into his robotics company
“I have this guy named Brett Adcock, who sold the company for two or three billion dollars.
And as the next company, it's like a robot business and he's investing two hundred million dollars in like five years of research.”
Vettery raised $10M, sold for over $100M, and acquired Hired.com
“Vetteri ended up buying Hired.com when Hired.com went bankrupt. And so Vetteri was basically a job website to help people recruit engineers, raised ten million dollars, eventually was acquired for a hundred and twenty-ish, about a hundred, 150, I think.”
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 SOURCERYLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 2 | 54 | 93% 14/15 | full record on Sourcery → |
| FOUNDER'S JOURNALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 2 | 35 | 75% 3/4 | full record on Founder's Journal → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 2 | 35 | 86% 6/7 | full record on My First Million → |
 WTFLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 1 | 35 | 100% 6/6 | full record on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath → |
 NO PRIORSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 2 | 20 | 50% 2/4 | full record on No Priors → |