ASPIRE open-sourced after a model swap hit 99%
Jim Fan says his lab swapped the backend model in its robotics framework and saturated every benchmark to about 99% overnight. Elsewhere, the first reply to Tesla's newest clip was a researcher asking whether the footage is AI-generated.
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ASPIRE goes open source after a model swap saturated its benchmarks
Jim Fan's lab open-sourced V1.0 of ASPIRE, an agentic robotics framework, with what he calls full real robot skill discovery and self improvement.
A rising frontier tide lifts all boats, but Astra was a 0->1 tsunami on many tasks.
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Tesla posts a robot clip, researchers ask if it is AI-generated
Tesla posted a new robot video captioned "Real life, baby" and the field split immediately over whether the footage is real. Jiafei Duan quoted it asking if it was AI-generated, while Animesh Garg said the effort is "how we build iron man" and predicted a wave in autonomous multimodal personal transport.
Is this an AI-generated video? I am confused.
Chart says general AI skill predicts robot skill, except for Gemini
Robocurve PBC posted an analysis saying general AI capability predicts robot capability, with Gemini models as strong outliers. Removing Gemini raises the correlation coefficient from 0.20 to 0.96, which means the trend only holds once you drop the models Google has been pushing hardest on robots. Keerthana Gopalakrishnan reacted to the post with a heart.