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- Michael Black vs GPT-6 Astra; Agility's $1.8M revenue
Michael Black says GPT-6 Astra made his ECCV paper obsolete before he could present it, and senior vision researchers are pausing work to measure the model. Also: Kat Scott reads Agility Robotics' SPAC numbers, $1.8M revenue against a $140M operating loss.
- GPT-6 Astra hits 95% on a robot arm, Malik pushes back
Jay Chooi says a general chat model scored 95% steering a robot arm, Figure committed $3.5B to GPUs for Helix, and Jitendra Malik challenged the LLM crowd to make a legged robot walk.
- Malik vs Isola: can an LLM actually control a robot?
Jitendra Malik turned the GPT-6 Astra robotics hype into a testable challenge and Phillip Isola took it. Plus Astra's real2sim demos, Lightwheel's 100,000 hours of first-person video, and a Boston Dynamics spinout for theme parks.
- Figure's $3.5B compute bet, Unitree's boxing claim
Figure stacked a $3.5B Nscale compute deal on top of Index, a network collecting task video from 100+ countries, and Unitree says its humanoids are now fighting each other with no human in control.