Google just announced Gemini Robotics 2, extending its physical AI models beyond tabletop manipulation.
A robot tying a trash bag sounds routine, but might be a bigger breakthrough than it seems:
New research from Microsoft.
This one is on training computer-use agents at scale.
Recent pipelines generate synthetic environments in bulk, which moved the bottleneck from how many exist to what is inside each one. Echoverse compiles specifications into stateful applications whose tasks are graded against the application's own database, then runs a co-evolution loop that reads every graded rollout twice. Once as repairs to the environment, its tasks and its verifier. Once as training signal for the model.
On the same domains, shallow environments pushed live-site accuracy below the base model, from 80.0 down to 75.0. Deep ones raised it, 80.0 to 85.0 and 48.0 to 65.0.
Repairing a single environment lifted the model trained on it from 16.2% to 38.5%. Across twelve environments, a 9B model went from 36.5% to 67.1% on fourteen evaluation splits, within fourteen points of the much larger frontier model that taught it.
They release four environments as a benchmark with applications, seed data and grounded graders.
Paper: https://t.co/thTetOjep1
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Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is built for voice agents in the real world. It hears clearly in noisy conditions, reasons through complex workflows, and sounds more natural in conversation.
To be truly useful, a robot needs the dexterity that humans take for granted. But asking AI models to coordinate these motions is incredibly complicated.
In this demo, we pushed Apollo 2 to master fine motor skills and complete tricky kitchen chores ↓
Voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and reaches the tools you've connected mid-conversation.
Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages.
My latest Bloomberg Interview, where I talked about AI technologies coming from China, including Kimi K3, and https://t.co/tq9WCFxkLe's TrueNorth and Boss AI. https://t.co/KCsQt12418
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A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards framework we’ve proposed supports responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.
ABot World 0.5B is out! we have now world models at home, running in real-time on consumer GPU
feed it an initial image, steer it with with your keyboard 🌎
you can run it locally or play now on spaces
▶️ https://t.co/0JUL2rRspW
Opus 5 is available today on all paid plans and the Claude API, priced the same as Opus 4.8. It’s the default model on Claude Max, and the strongest on Claude Pro. It’s also offered in Fast mode, which runs around 2.5× the default speed.
Read more: https://t.co/YMw7gLMT7e