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Morning Edition · Thursday, November 12, 2026Published at 1:18 AM EST · New York
Nvidia's 2-billion-parameter GR00T 2 learns chemistry-lab tasks from a handful of demonstrations and will ship open weights
Jim Fan, Nvidia's director of robotics, says a lab demo that ends with the robot cleaning up was run autonomously, uncut and at real speed on onboard compute. Weights are due in December.
Nvidia presented GR00T 2 at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in Austin on November 9. Jim Fan, Nvidia's director of robotics, described it as a 2-billion-parameter model, Humanoids Daily reported. The video that circulated most widel…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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