Chat GPT Boss And Richest Man Unite,

Pool Funds To Make Robots

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia –OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have jointly invested in a robot-making startup called Physical Intelligence.

Physical Intelligence is a company headquartered in San Francisco. In its latest funding round, they raised US$400 million (Rp6.3 trillion) which made the company’s valuation reach US$2.4 billion (Rp37.8 trillion).

Bezos is the founder of Amazon and the spaceflight company Blue Origin. Now, Bezos is the second richest person in the world with a price reaching US$218 billion (Rp3,440 trillion).

In addition to Bezos and Altman, other investors who have invested in Physical Intelligence are Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, and Bond Capital. Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital are also listed as shareholders.

Physical Intelligence focuses on ambitiously using AI technology “in the physical world” through the development of artificial intelligence models and algorithms for robots. The majority of the company’s employees are former employees of Tesla, Google Deepmind, and X.

The AI ​​model built is a “general-purpose AI” model, which is a model that is able to perform various types of tasks, not AI that can only process certain tasks.

The company’s vision is a world where robots can be asked to do any job their users want, as can now be done by “chatbots” in the form of ChatGPT or Gemini. In the company’s official blog, Physical Intelligence describes how their technology allows robots to perform everyday tasks such as washing clothes, picking up dirty dishes at restaurants, and assembling cardboard boxes.

The funding at Physical Intelligence is the latest news in the growing AI industry. Last week, OpenAI just launched a search feature that could rival Google as the main source of information on the internet.

In October, OpenAI also announced the closing of its latest funding round which boosted the company’s valuation to US$ 157 billion (Rp. 2,477 trillion).

SOURCE : CNBC INDONESIA