MIT's Rackauckas Fine-Tunes Local Models for Robots Now Working Real Jobs

Chris Rackauckas of MIT's SciML team says locally fine-tuned models running on Orin 64GB units now handle day-to-day operations for autonomous robots delivering beer and managing a shop on an island, while Opus is only used for writing scripts.

2026-10-18 ~ 2026-10-18 · 2 related posts

• Chris Rackauckas: fine-tuned local models run robot heads on Orin 64GB, Opus writes the scripts — ChrisRackauckas · 2026-10-18
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