Tag: world models

Physicl raises 10 million to make simulation honest enough for robots

The seed round led by Inovia Capital funds a platform that turns messy real-world scans into physically accurate…

42AI leaves stealth with $62.5M to model how people decide

The Israeli startup sells a behavioural world model that prices the probability of a person's next choice, starting…

Ex-Palantir pair raises $17M to model construction sites

Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur spent a decade building defense software and now want world models to plan…

DeepMind gives Genie 4 a voice and a steering wheel

Google's newest world model generates ambient sound and spoken dialogue alongside the scene it is rendering.

Odyssey opens a world model you can walk through

The startup put Odyssey-3 into a free public preview that generates explorable environments in real time.

Nvidia teaches video models physics through plain language

Researchers from Nvidia, MIT and Oxford built Physis-Lang, a framework that sharpens video world models by rewriting their…

Microsoft builds a biology world model to cut lab guesswork

Quine pairs a multimodal model of biological systems with a harness that runs experiments computationally first.

AMD spends $8.2B to fold Fei-Fei Li’s lab into its chip roadmap

The chipmaker is buying World Labs in stock and installing its founder as chief scientist.

Black Forest Labs releases an open robotics world model

FLUX 3 Action predicts the next move and the next state of the world from camera feeds alone.

Runway pitches live video you steer while it generates

The company wants video models to stream frame by frame instead of rendering after a prompt.

MirroS rewrites video frames into runnable physics code

MirroS turns real video into editable MuJoCo physics programs an agent can verify and re-run.

Ex-Nvidia researcher banks $90M seed for physical world models

Sanja Fidler's Veeda AI wants robots to learn inside simulated realities instead of the real world.