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Jim Fan announces Flora open models for robotics data at 125x lower cost

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NVIDIA
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open-sources the weights for Flora, a suite of open models for parsing the physical world and turning raw footage into training signals
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Jim Fan announced Flora, a suite of open models that parse the physical world and turn raw footage into rich training signals, claiming Astra-level performance at 125x lower cost. He said the team is open-sourcing the weights today and that Flora already powers an in-house application, with the final sentence cut off at.

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NVIDIA has open-sourced the weights for Flora, a suite of models that parse the physical world and turn raw footage into training signals for robotics, Jim Fan announced. Fan claimed Flora delivers Astra-level performance at 125x lower cost and said it already powers an in-house application.

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