OpenAI disbands robotics team as its general models prove they can run robots
Eliv_nurotic · reddit · 2026-11-14
Per Fortune, OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team, moving researchers to general model teams: its frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra, can now be directly applied to robotics. Earlier in the year the plan was to build on Sora-style video models, but general models changed that. CMU's Guanya Shi reads it as OpenAI seeing robotics as "no longer a special problem" — just a downstream application of general intelligence, like coding or legal tools.
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