Rumor: OpenAI Pays $380k-$460k for Control Engineers to Bake Robotics into GPT-6
xeophon · x · 2026-09-29
An unverified claim circulating: OpenAI is paying $380k–$460k in San Francisco for control systems engineers, and has reportedly trained thousands of hours with UMI, data gloves, and teleoperation data to embed a robotics foundation model into GPT-6.
The sharer's takeaway: those robotics demos weren't spontaneous emergence — they were built on massive amounts of collected data.
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