{"id":"8ca71205-71ca-4036-8f26-1bb35217fa35","slug":"openvla","name":"OpenVLA","description":"An academic open-source vision-language-action model at 7B parameters. Multi-developer collaboration across Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute, and Google DeepMind. Listed here as a research-model entity; architectural details should be firmed against the OpenVLA paper at build.","brainType":"research-model","isOpen":true,"maturityStage":"research","architecture":"7B-parameter VLA. Architecture and training-data details pending firmer primary-source confirmation (OpenVLA paper at openvla.github.io and arXiv).","reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://openvla.github.io/","label":"OpenVLA project page (firm at build)"},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09246","title":"OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model (arXiv 2406.09246; 7B params, 970k demos; Stanford/Berkeley/Google DeepMind/TRI)","sourceName":"arXiv (academic)"},{"url":"https://github.com/openvla/openvla","title":"OpenVLA (official GitHub) - open-source VLA for robotic manipulation; MIT License","sourceName":"OpenVLA (official GitHub)"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Thin-record depth note","value":"Architecture, parameter count, training-data composition should be firmed against the OpenVLA paper at openvla.github.io / arXiv. Entity carries verified-vs-claimed framing until firmed."},{"label":"Multi-developer collaboration","value":"Stanford + UC Berkeley + Toyota Research Institute + Google DeepMind (only Google DeepMind is attached as a registry developer; the academic institutions are not registry Companies)"},{"label":"Powered platforms","value":"Research robot platforms; not a commercial-deployment brain"},{"label":"7B VLA OpenX pretrain (primary OpenVLA site)","value":"The OpenVLA project page describes a 7B-parameter open-source vision-language-action model pretrained on 970k robot episodes from the Open X-Embodiment dataset. Architecture listed: fused SigLIP + DinoV2 visual encoder, projector into a Llama 2 7B backbone that predicts tokenized actions decoded to continuous robot actions. Training cited on 64 A100 GPUs for 15 days. Checkpoints and PyTorch pipeline are open-sourced on HuggingFace (OpenVLA)"},{"label":"Authors and eval framing (primary OpenVLA / arXiv)","value":"Authors listed include Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti (equal contribution) with affiliations spanning Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute, Google DeepMind, Physical Intelligence, and MIT. The page says OpenVLA sets a new state of the art for generalist robot manipulation policies versus RT-1-X and Octo in their evaluations, and can be adapted via parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA matching full fine-tune while updating about 1.4% of parameters). Treat SOTA wording as authors' reported eval claim (OpenVLA; arXiv:2406.09246)"},{"label":"Open model distribution","value":"The OpenVLA project publishes model checkpoints, code, and training materials for an open-source 7B vision-language-action model for robot manipulation (OpenVLA)."},{"label":"Inference and fine-tuning resources","value":"The official OpenVLA repository documents loading the model for inference and adapting it to new robot tasks through fine-tuning (OpenVLA repository)."}],"aliases":["OpenVLA"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"builtOnBrainId":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-28T14:06:07.607Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T22:00:23.960Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"SoftwareApplication","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/brains/openvla","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/brains/openvla","name":"OpenVLA","alternateName":["OpenVLA"],"description":"An academic open-source vision-language-action model at 7B parameters. Multi-developer collaboration across Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute, and Google DeepMind. Listed here as a research-model entity; architectural details should be firmed against the OpenVLA paper at build.","identifier":"8ca71205-71ca-4036-8f26-1bb35217fa35","applicationCategory":"research-model","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}},"framework_metadata":{"framework_schema_version":"0.1.0","verification_status":"verified","maturity_stage":"research","lifecycle_state":null,"architectural_position":{"cohort":null,"sub_cohorts":[]},"within_cohort_verified_vs_claimed_pair":null,"cap_flags":[],"verification_depth":{"sources_count":3,"primary_source_types":["code-repository","preprint"]}}}