robotics
Posts tagged “robotics”.
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AI Brief, 25 October 2026: a robot policy for bodies it has never seen
Dream Labs came out of stealth on 19 October with a model that controls two-armed robots it was never trained on, and an independent evaluator scores it at 59.3% against 48.2% for the best large-model configuration, at a sixteenth of the cost per attempt. A kernel module restores the halved BF16 rate on consumer Ampere cards. And Apollo's chief economist puts the AI payoff outside tech at zero.
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AI Brief, 20 September 2026: a terabyte of weights for a model listed as proprietary
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview as an API-only model this morning, and 1.21 TB of its bf16 weights are sitting ungated on Hugging Face with no model card and no licence. The config names three different model generations and a robotics architecture class. Meanwhile four labs were sued for allegedly agreeing to slow down.