For sure, LLMs are getting disproportionate attention right now. That said, what we’re seeing happening increasingly is that LLMs are now being combined with other techniques like RL, so it does tend to be a combination of different machine learning techniques that gets really interesting results. From what I’ve been reading LLMs are very much part of the mix in China, and they seem to sit at the interface level providing a human friendly interface for underlying systems as discussed here. https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/knowledge/article/ai-driven-robotics-and-china-future-industries/