OpenAI model that demonstrated robot manipulation, an early mover in the embodied race.
OpenAI told investors its third-quarter revenue rose nearly 50% to $10 billion, while its loss widened to $10.9 billion. API demand for GPT 5.6, Astra and image models drove the rebound from a soft second quarter, underscoring the cost pressure of scaling frontier-model commercialization.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2, adding embodied manipulation demos such as solving a Rubik's cube, opening bottles and driving a robot to draw, directly rivaling OpenAI's Astra. The piece argues these gains likely rest on dedicated robot data rather than pure emergence, shifting the embodied AI bottleneck toward tactile and physical-contact data infrastructure, where firms like Jianzhi are building gloves and head-mounted capture devices.