OpenAI Scraps Its Standalone Robotics Team for General Models
OpenAI confirmed to Fortune on 13 November that its stand-alone robotics group has been dissolved: researchers moved into chief research officer Mark Chen’s core organisation, while applied robotics and hardware moved under president Brad Brockman’s Applied division. The stated logic is that general-purpose models now generalise across embodiments well enough to displace purpose-built robot stacks — a direct challenge to the venture thesis that embodied AI needs its own brain.