Altman Announcement: OpenAI Officially Unveils Robot, Aims for Universal Access

According to Dynamic Yield, Sam Altman posted on X announcing that OpenAI Robotics is hiring full-stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers with the goal of programming and manufacturing robots that are socially beneficial. The short-term focus is on creating robots to assist tech workers in building infrastructure, with the long-term vision of giving everyone a personal robot that can do anything.

In the post, Altman confirmed that the World Simulation project led by Aditya Ramesh has evolved into OpenAI Robotics over the past year, with hardware and algorithms designed together from the beginning, making rapid progress.

OpenAI's CEO Brockman previously explained the rationale behind this shift in an interview on the Big Technology Podcast: Sora's world model and the core GPT reasoning model are two different branches of the tech tree, and limited computing power prevents simultaneous progress. Therefore, the consumer-level applications of Sora were scrapped, and research resources were focused on robots. He also mentioned that robots are not yet mature enough for large-scale deployment, and the real takeoff next year will still be in the field of knowledge work.