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title: "Reka AI releases Rho-1, a 19B omni-model that also controls robots"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/reka-ai-releases-rho-1-a-19b-omni-model-that-also-controls-robots-249e78
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/reka-ais-omni-model-rho-1-handles-text-images-video-and-robot-control-in-a-single-model/
published: 2026-10-05T18:26:05.000Z
topics: ["llms", "research"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Reka AI releases Rho-1, a 19B omni-model that also controls robots

*2026-10-05 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/reka-ais-omni-model-rho-1-handles-text-images-video-and-robot-control-in-a-single-model/)*

Rho-1 is a 19-billion-parameter model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in one network, treating every modality as tokens in a shared context window. Reka says it was trained on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months, far less compute than top models use.

**Why it matters:** A single model covering language, vision and action without routing to specialists is the architecture robotics efforts are converging on. If the low-compute training claim holds, it suggests smaller labs can still compete in embodied AI.

**Topics:** llms, research

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