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Perceptron AI Launches Isaac 0.5, a Frontier Open-Weight Robotics Model

Perceptron’s Isaac 0.5 outperforms leading open robot models, including Physical Intelligence’s π0.5 and NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.7 BELLEVUE, Wash. — Perceptron AI has launched Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight embodied foundation model that combines video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control, the first open model at the frontier of all three. Perceptron is working with…

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Texas AG Race Could Bring New Scrutiny of Workplace AI

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