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Ai2 says new MolmoAct 7B model brings AI into the physical world

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Ai2's MolmoAct 7B is a revolutionary embodied AI model enabling robots to understand and navigate physical environments. Using visual reasoning tokens, it transforms 2D images into 3D spatial plans, allowing step-by-step task execution. Trained on 12,000 robot episodes with minimal resources, it outperforms many commercial systems while maintaining transparency and user control. This open-source "action reasoning model" marks a significant advancement in human-robot collaboration in physical spaces.

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