Chelsea Finn on robots entering the GPT era

Physical Intelligence co-founder Chelsea Finn spoke at Startup School 2026 about building general-purpose robots in the real world: reinforcement learning doubled robot throughput, and the system can run autonomously for hours. She believes robots are entering the "GPT era"—moving from specialized models to general systems that work across tasks and across robots. Sergey Levine remarked that Chelsea's talk was once again rock-star level, and that robots really can fold laundry and make espresso!