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Figure Paid $15M to 16 Million Uploaded Videos and Turned Its Stealth Data App Into a Public One Called Index
Figure launched Index on the App Store and Google Play, rebranding a data-collection app it had run in stealth for four months. Figure says Creators have uploaded over 16 million videos, that the app now ingests 30 minutes of video every second, that $15 million has been paid out so far, and that the company is committing over $1 billion to data and compute in the next 12 months to train its Helix system. The r/singularity thread's sharpest observation was economic: the payout works out to under a dollar per video, which commenters read as a bet on third-world labor rather than US hobbyists.
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