Why General LLMs Will Control Physical Robots | Thijs Simonian

General-purpose LLMs like OpenAI's Astra are already controlling physical robots, suggesting broad, model-driven robotics unlock is imminent.

• LLMs now control robots: Simonian says plugging a general-purpose model like OpenAI's Astra into a robot arm lets it pick up blocks and complete tasks, though slowly and with mistakes — mirroring early computer-use demos from months ago.
• Viral painting demo: Before Astra's public launch, Simonian and OpenAI researcher Tagel got the model to paint the Golden Gate Bridge with a robot arm as a launch demo; Sam Altman quote-tweeted it.

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