What Chelsea Finn thinks about open source

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Assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, and co-founder of the robot foundation-model company Physical Intelligence.

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12 Aug 2026

Our readingA small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its own specialist models first.

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Their wordsI mean at the very least I actually think that just starting with a generalist policy and then fine-tuning it even like right off the bat uh can be really effective.

↗Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Roboticsyoutube.com 16th of 22 in this recording