Top developers are shifting from chatbots to physical AI. Here’s why (opens in new tab)

Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude — when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end.“We basically have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,” Castricato said. “Now it’s just applications.”The researcher quit his doctoral studies at Brown University and started a new company, called Overworld. Its ambition is in its name: AI that can...