OpenAI's Will Depue: even specialized robotics researchers were surprised
willdepue · x · 2026-11-01
Will Depue pushes back on people dismissing a recent robotics capability as "just XYZ," noting that the team's cracked researchers specializing in the field were themselves surprised. His quick take: much of it could come from computer-use transfer to rapidly controlling objects from video input — but he asks why specialized robotics teams were comparably limited at this before.
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