"Bitter lesson" gets pattern matched as a stock answer to anything vaguely resembling optimization/compute trends these days.

Like, news about internal reorgs at one company that could plausibly be done for any number of boring, bean-counting reasons.

From the article it seems more likely OpenAI just isn't prioritizing robotics anymore. Which seems to fit better than abandoning their booth at a robotics expo because "robotics = solved".

  The change came recently enough that OpenAI had already registered a booth at CoRL, a top academic robotics conference in Austin, this week. Though the conference app and floor plan marked OpenAI’s spot, when Fortune visited booth #208, it sat empty with OpenAI’s logo nowhere to be seen.