Researchers say now is the window for open models to catch up in robotics

Eric Jang argues now is a rare window to study robotics with open models, and Komatsuzaki's Robobench tests show closed models like Astra far ahead, using just 100 tokens for reasoning.

2026-09-28 ~ 2026-09-28 · 2 related posts

• Eric Jang: now is the window to test OSS models on robotics before the gap closes — ericjang11 · 2026-09-28
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