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Figure AI robots actually understand human commands.
Plus: Protein discoveries
Amandeep Singh
February 21, 2025
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🤖 AI robots now understand "Pass the salt" — Future is here?
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🧬 Microsoft's BioEmu-1 is the fastest protein dancer in town.
💻 NVIDIA's newest AI teaches sign language in real-time.
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Microsoft
Microsoft just dropped a game-changer in biotech. Meet BioEmu-1, an AI system that predicts how proteins move and fold—thousands of structures per hour, rivaling the accuracy of supercomputers.
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The Breakdown:
🔹 100,000x faster than traditional simulations—what once took months now takes minutes.
🔹 Trained on 9 trillion DNA building blocks, 750,000 stability tests, and 200 milliseconds of molecular simulation data.
🔹 Matches lab measurements, even for proteins it has never seen before.
🔹 Free for researchers worldwide via Azure AI Foundry Labs.
Why It Matters 🚀
AI is rewriting the speed of science. Microsoft and Google are rolling out breakthroughs that cut research time from years to days. With open access, the next big discovery might be closer than we think.
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Figure AI
Helix: The AI Brain Bringing Household Robots to Life
Figure has unveiled Helix, an advanced AI model that lets robots understand voice commands and interact with objects they’ve never seen before. This could be the key to making robots practical for everyday home use.
Image Source: Figure AI
The Breakthrough:
Smarter AI – Helix combines a 7B-parameter model for comprehension with an 80M-parameter model for precise movement.
Teamwork in Action – Figure showcased two robots putting away groceries they’d never encountered, following natural language commands.
Efficient Learning – Helix needs just 500 hours of training data and runs on basic onboard GPUs, making it far more efficient than past approaches.
No OpenAI? No Problem – This comes just weeks after Figure parted ways with OpenAI, showing confidence in its in-house AI tech.
Why It Matters:
Industrial robots are already thriving, but household robots are the next frontier. Figure’s system proves that scalable AI training is possible, bringing robots closer to handling the unpredictable chaos of home life.
Trending Today
Micropsi industries has made an AI vision called MIRAI for its factory robots, enabling them to see, work, and adapt to conditions in a factory environment, handling different objects and shapes.
xAI announced that its new Grok-3 model is now freely available for a limited time, with premium users getting increased usage and early access to advanced features.
NVIDIA partnered with the American Society for Deaf Children to launch 'Signs', an AI-powered platform that provides real-time feedback for ASL learners alongside a dataset of 400,000 sign language video clips.
Spotify, has partnered with AI voice generator start-up, ElevenLabs, to bring more AI-generated audiobooks to the platform, as it “recognizes the potential of digital voice-narration to grow and expand the audiobook market” (It wants to compete with the likes of Amazon and Audible in the audiobook market).
Hugging Face dropped a family of open-source VLMs called SmolVLM2 claiming are the “smallest ever released.” One 500M-parameter version is so tiny it can run locally on your phone. It can analyze all kinds of visual information — from complex diagrams to text in photos — with comparable performance to its rivals, while coming in a much smaller package.
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