## Idea Posts

[**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