Research
In five days, an Ant Group affiliate open-sourced an entire robot brain — perception, depth, world model, video-action — while BAAI shipped a world model that learns robot control without action labels and Mistral entered robotics for the first time. The physical-AI frontier moved to open weights, and almost none of it came from a US lab. A map of the week that reset embodied AI.
Hassabis hasn't moved his AGI forecast in 16 years — the news is the drug pipeline
Hassabis's "2030" line at AI Ascent 2026 is the same prediction he made in 2010. The publishable claim is the falsifiable one: AlphaFold 3 plus Isomorphic Labs has now slipped its first clinical trial to end of 2026.
Jim Fan's great parallel — Nvidia is photocopying the LLM playbook for robots
Jim Fan's AI Ascent 2026 talk made the case that EgoScale's 0.1% teleop ratio, DreamDojo's 44,000-hour neural simulator, and a stated 95% confidence in robot auto-research by 2040 mean robotics has finally hit the data-and-compute curve LLMs hit in 2020.