Figure AI Helix 2.5
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Figure AI Helix 2.5 has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Vlad TenevBulgarian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood and founder of Harmonic
Tenev says he would not want current humanoid robots in his home and questions their aggressive, Terminator-like design.
“I still can't understand why all these things look like the Terminator, you know?”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:36:54
Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
Wissner-Gross predicts Brett Adcock will have Figure acquire his separate company Hark and merge their models.
“I'm doubling down on the prediction that Brett is going to have figure purchase Hark in order to increase his equity in figure”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:34:46
Dave BlundinFounder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots
Blundin argues that if Figure extends its lead in physical-world data, generalization across actions will produce explosive capability gains.
“if they get a big enough lead, it's just going to be crazy explosion of capability”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:33:42
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 19, 2026 · 2 h 7 min
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss AI liability, tokenization, Trump Accounts, agentic trading, humanoid robots and recursive self-improvement.