OpenAI denies disbanding robotics team, says research merged into core model org
deanwball · x · 2026-11-14
Fortune reported that OpenAI disbanded its standalone robotics team and redistributed researchers. OpenAI's Michelle Fradin publicly pushed back, calling the headline misleading: nothing was disbanded. She says Astra was a breakthrough in robot intelligence, which is why robotics research was merged into the main research team, with everyone now focused on making the next core models better at robotics.
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