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OpenAI robotics research was merged, not disbanded, Michelle Fradin says

Fradin disputes Fortune’s headline, saying robotics research joined the main team to improve future core models.

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Exclusive: OpenAI disbands its stand-alone robotics team as its general-purpose AI models start running robots | Fortune

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Michelle Fradin rejects Fortune’s “disbanded” framing, saying OpenAI merged robotics research into its main research team. She describes Astra as a breakthrough in robotics intelligence and says the focus is now making the next core models better at robotics.

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