OpenAI disbands robotics team, betting LLMs will be robot brains
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-11-14
Per Fortune, OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team and moved researchers onto general-model teams. The company says its general-purpose frontier models (including GPT-6 Astra, building on Sora's implicit physics understanding) can now be applied directly to robotics, treating it as a downstream application of general intelligence rather than a special problem. CMU professor Guanya Shi read the reorg as a signal of that strategy.
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