Researchers Suspect Google Astra Trained on 3D Data for Strong Spatial Understanding

Georgia Gkioxari and Michael Black noted that Google's Astra, while not natively 3D, outperforms other frontier multimodal models in 3D perception, likely because its training data includes 3D and robot manipulation data.

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