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Multimodal perception

Reading images, audio and video as well as text.

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Facts

Lane
Models and thresholds
Wave
4 of 12 (build order, not a date)
Needs
7 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks
25 boxes downstream through hard links
Leverage
None: already built
Cluster
Robots and the physical economy

Evidence as of October 2026

On Karpathy’s list of what agents still lack before they can work like an intern.

  1. 01Andrej Karpathy on the Dwarkesh Podcast

Around it

Needs · 1
Unlocks · 10

Loops and off-ramps