The release marks a shift toward open-source alternatives for robotics tasks that previously required frontier-level closed models. Some early technical assessments describe DeepSeek V4.1 as the most economically efficient model from China, though it is noted as being less capable in vision-language modeling than some competitors.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Hao AI Lab's Open Robot Agents Rival GPT and Claude on Visual Input
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Physical robot arms can now be operated using an open-weight software system that processes visual data without the use of specialized vision-language-action models. Hao AI Lab's new framework, known as ORA (Open Robot-Use Agents), leverages the DeepSeek V4.1-Flash model to enable zero-shot robot control from visual inputs, allowing open models to compete with the proprietary robot-operating capabilities of agents like GPT and Claude.
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