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Jim Fan Declares DreamZero the 'GPT-2 Moment' for Robotics — NVIDIA Open-Sources 14B World Action Model
NVIDIA's Jim Fan announced DreamZero, a 14-billion parameter 'World Action Model' that shifts robot intelligence from text-based reasoning to visual imagination — robots 'dream' future pixels and actions simultaneously before executing motor commands. Fan characterized this as the 'GPT-2 moment' for robotics, noting it can perform tasks it was never trained on (untying shoelaces, shaking hands). NVIDIA is open-sourcing weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and whitepaper under Apache 2.0, calling 2026 'the year of World Models for physical AI.'
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