Text-to-image generation has evolved beyond single monolithic models to complex multi-component pipelines. These combine fine-tuned generators, adapters, upscaling blocks and even editing steps, leading to significant improvements in image quality. However, their effective design requires substantial expertise.

Text-to-image diffusion models can generate stunning visuals, yet they often fail at tasks children find trivial - like placing a dog to the right of a teddy bear rather than to the left. When combinations get more unusual - a giraffe above an airplane—these failures become even more pronounced. Existing methods attempt to fix these spatial reasoning failures through model fine-tuning or test-time optimization with handcrafted losses that are suboptimal.

We introduce Alpamayo-R1, a vision–language–action model (VLA) that integrates Chain of Causation reasoning with trajectory planning to enhance decision-making in complex driving scenarios.

Comprehensive evaluations with open-loop metrics, closed-loop simulation, and real-world vehicle tests demonstrate that Alpamayo-R1 is state-of-the-art in multiple aspects (including reasoning, trajectory generation, alignment, safety, latency, and more).

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining, the first unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require action labels typically collected by human teleoperators during pretraining, which significantly limits possible data sources and scale. In this work, we propose a method to learn from internet-scale videos that do not have robot action labels.

Bimanual manipulation is challenging due to precise spatial and temporal coordination required between two arms. While there exist several real-world bimanual systems, there is a lack of simulated benchmarks with a large task diversity for systematically studying bimanual capabilities across a wide range of tabletop tasks. This paper addresses the gap by presenting a benchmark for bimanual manipulation. A key functionality is the ability to autonomously generate training data without the necessity of human demonstrations to the robot.