3.8 flash would be the model to test, it's vision capabilities are excellent (on par with Astra) while also being incredibly fast.

This is quite impressive...

But I imagine this is orders of magnitude more expensive / less efficient than whatever Waymo is already doing, right?

The cool thing is that 1) it's theoretically more generalizable, 2) if we wait 18 months, it'll be 100x cheaper, and another 100x cheaper likely in 18 more months - at that point - something like a Mac Studio inside a humanoid could have these generalized capabilities, and a lot of Robotics problems start to look more feasible - especially when you consider how much better the models could be if highly specialized.

There isn't any model out there even close to as good as Astra at visual/spatial reasoning.