Daily VLM & VLA Research Briefing — 2026-05-26
Today’s big news is the release of **MolmoAct2** by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). This open-source robotics model outperforms Physical Intelligence’s π0.5 in various real-world benchmarks and comes with a fully released 720-hour bimanual dataset. We also have **Open-MM-RL**, a new multimodal reinforcement learning pipeline that makes VLM-based RLVR research much easier to jump into.
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