Open-source VLAs still struggle with basic representation alignment, researcher argues
ChongZzZhang · x · 2026-09-09
Arguing that until there's a real advance in open-vocabulary zero-shot setups, all VLAs are still struggling to align basic representations — and open-source VLA claims of a "GPT-3 moment" can't be independently verified.
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