Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

kept by eddie apr 17

Physical Intelligence's new π0.7 model can direct robots to perform unfamiliar tasks by combining learned skills, surprising its own researchers.

The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
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