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[Going Beyond World Models & VLAs

Goals are more powerful than methods. We share our perspective on why GEN-1 is trained from scratch — and what lies beyond VLAs and world models.

5 min read April 7, 2026

[The Dark Matter of Robotics: Physical Commonsense

It's the reactive, closed-loop intelligence behind interacting in the physical world — an intuition of physics, compiled into reflex and muscle memory. What's been elusive in robotics may, for the first time, emerge from scaling.

6 min read January 29, 2026