OpenAI folded robotics into core research to cut costs, not due to GPT-6 breakthroughs
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-11-14
The author argues OpenAI's robotics team wasn't made obsolete—it became a line item. OpenAI folded robotics into core research to cut costs, not because GPT-6 Astra can already run robots. The 2027 humanoid demo is still a maybe, so hardware teams still need their own control stacks.
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