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- Amazing work.
u.i. Zugló robot mikor?
by takd - OpenAi cries in soraby htrp
- this is the future. but also the present.
if you know some one out of the software development/engineering worlds, please forward this to them
- We're barreling head-on into a crisis where humans have even less value unless they own the means of production. Dark days ahead, friends.by idiotsecant
- It's nice to see partnerships between European startups.by rlupi
- Wasn’t Flux purchased by Meta?by DarkNova6
- This is awesome.
What's sad to me is that we have all this awesome technology, but movies are worse than ever.
I usually watch movies from decades ago just to find something decent and it's amazing how with goofy-looking puppets the storytelling was 1000 times better.
This is probably an unrelated rant, sorry
by altern8 - would you refuse to invest in BFL because Robin Rombach doesn't know anything about making movies?
sora is done. can you find me one person brave enough to say, "Bill Peebles, a nice guy, doesn't know anything about making movies?" this isn't just a VC problem, this is why it is called the Hollywood No, but that said: maybe the hollywood no is the problem? in video games it has been called Toxic Positivity. are you getting it now?
- Survivorship bias, possible that you just aren’t watching all the shitty ones that nobody remembers.by phoghed
- Ok the phrasing here, it’s, it’s just -
> However, compared to more specialized approaches for representation learning they produce less disentangled representations, which puts a ceiling on their usefulness for tasks that require world understanding.
Only an LLM would use a less disentangled representation of the concept “more entangled” when trying to explain to people in the real world why less disentangled representations are not as useful for modeling the real world.
- > Ok the phrasing here, it’s, it’s just -
That dash definitely means an LLM wrote this comment. /s
- goddamn people it’s a joke
- Bad news, humans write silly things all the time. If anything, LLMs are less likely to make awkward phrasings than people, because they aren’t found in the training data very often.by pennomi
- We’re just pulling signs of LLM touched writing out of our ass now. Might be time to move on from the accusations, assume all writing is at least LLM assisted and judge it purely on the quality.by phoghed
- Really interesting. Upshot: a well trained multimodal video generation model has a world representation model trained inside it. They’ve done some work lifting this world model out and deploying it to robots, where it seems to work well.
On the one hand, this isn’t a new idea, and the quality video models certainly have understanding of materials, light, the world (at least in an Occam’s razor sense of understanding). I’m not aware of a video lab that’s turned itself into a robot lab yet, though; perhaps this would be a first, or a new sort of obvious-in-retrospect business path: train video model, sell video generation, scale, use scale to train robot things: profit.
I found their hands very interesting - looks like a bunch of stuff hidden in gloves - Xiami’s Robotics-1 foundation model just released videos of users training on some pretty standard looking grippers; to the point that there are demo videos of people putting on gripper type gloves to make video to train that model.
The BFL model looks like it doesn’t need that at all. Given the difficulty of the hardware side, I’ll be curious to see what they do with this.
by vessenes - Rhoda Ai also does vidéo to robot modelsby davidguetta
- FYI several other video labs are getting into robotics
Luma Labs https://lumalabs.ai/news/luma-open-physical-ai-lab
by lairv - I think this tactic is standard, no? Nvidia has demoed robots being trained using video generation models, and Waymo has been doing that for a while too.
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...
by mike_hearn - The video at around 3.30min, where the robot arm took 3 attempts to reseat the window trim, was quite unnerving - I have not seen such resolving before. Is it new or am I way out of the loop?
- Yes that was impressive.by ra
- if you want to catch up, i would say Generalist is the state of the art in dexterous manipulation tasks, you can learn more here https://generalistai.com/blog/gen-1by quadrature
- You are indeed out of the loop. Google did something arguably more impressive more than a year ago, with a VLA based bot replacing a tensioned timing belt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAFiuEP7iEby dinfinity