Yoav Goldberg: new robot models aren't zero-shot — they're trained to the max on each task

benno_krojer · x · 2026-09-13

LerrelPinto describes deep despair in academia as Astra, Fable and Muse appear to zero-shot robotics and world-model benchmarks. Yoav Goldberg pushes back: while the new wave of models does solve tasks that were hard for agents before, they didn't zero-shot anything — he's confident they were trained to the extreme on each and every one of those tasks.

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