VLAs are dead, long live World Action Models - a summary of Jim Fan's Robotics E

<h2> Why Decouple Reasoning from Motor Control </h2> <p>General-purpose robots have to pull off two very different jobs at once. They need to read a cluttered, full-room visual

arXiv:2605.00412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and

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<p>In the first eight weeks of 2026, ten major open-weight LLM architectures were released.</p> <p>GLM-5 matched GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks. Step 3.5 Flash

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Noam Brown</strong> — OpenAI Research Scientist and co-creator of o1, Libratus, and Cicero — sat down with Dwarkesh Patel for a 1h 20m