ChatGPT is anticipated to seem in the shape of a humanoid robot. OpenAI invests in a humanoid robot startup and develops a robot equipped with ChatGPT.

The Day by day Mail reported on the nineteenth (local time) that OpenAI, together with Tiger Global, Sandwater, and Alliance Ventures, invested $23.5 million (about 30 billion won) in 1X Technology, a Norwegian robot company.

1X plans to make use of this investment to expand production of the humanoid ‘EVE’, which was launched in Norway and North America, and to launch a latest bipedal humanoid ‘NEO’ model.

As well as, it is thought that the information of ChatGPT is compressed losslessly to create general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) and that ChatGPT can be being integrated right into a humanoid robot for security.

The investment appears to be Open AI’s try to connect the digital world’s large language model (LLM) with the physical world. With this investment as a start, the potential of humanoid robots equipped with AI developed by OpenAI has increased.

The ecosystem of generative AI services has been growing rapidly in recent months, but most of them understand and generate text or images.

Nevertheless, if a robot or perhaps a drone will be controlled using a language model, it is feasible to perform tasks comparable to moving real objects or drawing creative real pictures with only natural language commands.

The industry anticipates that LLM will control technologies comparable to robots and drones in the long run and step by step expand them to the true world. With OpenAI, the leader in generative AI, formalizing this move, the trend is about to speed up.

As well as, experts predicted that with this investment, OpenAI would compete with Elon Musk’s Tesla in the sector of robots.

It is because Tesla can be developing a bipedal humanoid robot called ‘Optimus’. Experts also identified that even though it is undecided when the Optimus promised by Elon Musk shall be released, 1X’s humanoid robot is already in circulation.

Regarding this, 1X said, “1X and Tesla are currently starting out in numerous markets, but there’s a possibility of conflict in the longer term. There isn’t a obvious competition without delay, but it is going to be as we catch up with to our long-term goals.”

Chan Park, cpark@aitimes.com