Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, American multinational technology companies, led a $675m Series B round in Figure, a financial services company that uses blockchain technology for loan origination, equity management, private fund services, banking, and payments sectors, with participation from Jeff Bezos, OpenAI Startup Fund, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. "We've always planned to come back to robotics and we see a path with Figure to explore what humanoid robots can achieve when powered by highly capable multimodal models," Peter Welinder, OpenAI Vice President.