Nvidia's Robot Models Rely on Pre-training
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-14
This post relays a perspective: Nvidia's open-source models for robotics are not trained entirely from scratch; their underlying pre-training still relies on Alibaba's models/architectures.
The author uses this to highlight the clear mutual dependency already existing in the robotics model ecosystem between China and the US, while also calling for more "from-scratch pre-trained" foundational models for robotics.
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