Google launches Gemini Robotics 2.5, first foundation model accelerated by Gemini 4 Argon in recursive self-improvement
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-11-11
Google announced Gemini Robotics 2.5, described as the first robotics foundation model whose development was strongly accelerated by Gemini 4 Argon.
Key points:
- The team is openly pushing recursive self-improvement (RSI): Gemini 4 Argon helped generate/curate training data, analyze evals, and propose, test and integrate model improvements
- These steps measurably improved final performance, with a live demo at CoRL
- Turing Award laureate David Patterson commented: "The acceleration is accelerating"
This is the first official instance of the RSI narrative paying off in robotics.
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