Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191
Today’s show:
Figure’s butler-bot could be cleaning up after you soon than you think!
On a Friday TWiST, Jason and Lon are checking out the Figure 03 demo reel, checking out the humanoid robot that could soon be hanging out in your house, doing your chores.
Lon’s a bit skeptical that full-sized Westworld drones will soon be on everyone’s home but the technology is obviously moving forward at a rapid clip and cutting-edge AI models are making the bots smarter than ever.
PLUS… what will be the impact of Presidents Trump and Xi’s new fight over rare earth minerals? Why are Jake Paul and Mark Cuban starring in SO MANY Sora clips? How well do these ChatGPT app integrations work, and why are they going to free users first? And much much more, on a can’t-miss new TWiST
Timestamps:
(0:00) Figure’s humanoid and its new capabilities
(2:15) Show start: Jason welcomes co-host Lon Harris
(6:24) The global dependency on China for rare earth minerals
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(10:54) Sora, AI likeness & deepfakes
(17:05) DEMO: Producer Oliver showcases ChatGPT's new integrations!
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(27:54) The future of AI: Will there be thousands of app integrations?
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(33:44) Discussing Reflection AI: A new American open-source model
(40:35) Reddit Rapid Response: Why young professionals should work in the office
(47:50) How AI is eliminating entry-level jobs & the need for executive training
(54:15) Jason's pitch to shut down the USPS and turn post offices into nursery schools
(58:25) Jason shares his personal journey with GLP-1s & Ro.co
(1:01:05) The Figure One robot: New video and future potential
(1:04:20) How LLMs are the key to unlocking humanoid robot capabilities
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| 0:00.0 | investors are loading into this company at this crazy evaluation. They don't even have a customer |
| 0:04.8 | yet. There was a little controversy. Is BMW a customer or not? Looks like BMW is in fact using them |
| 0:09.4 | in production. They shared a video of that. That was still a little controversial that video. |
| 0:14.1 | A lot of people are arguing an arm would have been better for that job than the whole robot or |
| 0:19.4 | what's the robot really doing. So there is still a lot of |
| 0:22.1 | back and forth even after they ship it. There always is. There always is with new technology. |
| 0:26.1 | But this thing looks great. It's stunning looking. And of course, the fixed robot's going to work |
| 0:32.0 | better for tighter tasks, but it will ultimately not have the flexibility of going around the world. |
| 0:37.8 | What I like about this new figure one is it has inductive charging at the feet. |
| 0:42.3 | Somebody took a screenshot of the foot. |
| 0:44.6 | And, you know, these things are probably a couple of years away from being in your home |
| 0:49.6 | doing productive stuff. |
| 0:51.3 | And they, the world is made for, you know, the world we created as humans is made |
| 0:56.3 | for the human form, like our shelving and et cetera. And what you're seeing here is this thing is, |
| 1:02.6 | they show it here, you know, bringing food out to the table, washing dishes, putting out water |
| 1:08.4 | glasses. It's the very classic robot butler. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, this is exactly what you'd think of if you had like a robot made, a robot |
| 1:16.2 | butler. |
| 1:16.8 | It's cooking for them. |
| 1:17.8 | It's cleaning the house. |
| 1:18.9 | It's bringing them stuff. |
| 1:19.8 | It's playing with the dog here. |
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