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JUL 11, 2026

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The week physical AI went open — and left the US labs out of the frame

In five days, an Ant Group affiliate open-sourced an entire robot brain, BAAI shipped a world model that learns robot control without action labels and Mistral entered robotics, moving the physical-AI frontier to open weights with almost none of it from a US lab.