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A Chinese humanoid startup flips 'distillation' claim on OpenAI as it releases a new robotics model
Friday, September 11, 2026
JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup backed by Ant Group, released a new model as its CEO published an article raising questions about similarities between the company's technology and OpenAI's published research. The CEO's article, written in Chinese, addressed comparisons being made between JoyIn's approach and OpenAI's work in the robotics field. JoyIn has not provided a detailed technical breakdown of the new model's architecture or training methodology. OpenAI has not publicly responded to the questions raised in the article.
