Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous ...

ACE ROBOTICS’ Kairos World Model Leads Multiple Global Embodied-Intelligence Benchmarks

SHANGHAI, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 June 2026 - ACE ROBOTICS today announced that its open-source Kairos ...
Tech Times

Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...
Tech Times

Microsoft Mirage Fixes AI Video World Model Drift With 55x Less GPU Memory

Microsoft Research’s Mirage stores 3D scene data directly in diffusion latent space, cutting GPU memory 55x and generation ...
TechCrunch

Odyssey’s new AI model streams 3D interactive worlds

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” ...
VentureBeat

1X's generative model first to predict real-world robot interactions

Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog ...
CNET

Why World Models Are AI's Next Big Thing

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
Ars Technica

Google’s Genie 2 “world model” reveal leaves more questions than answers

In March, Google showed off its first Genie AI model. After training on thousands of hours of 2D run-and-jump video games, the model could generate halfway-passable interactive impressions of those ...
NextBigFuture

AGI Needs World Models and State of World Models

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT’s path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and XAI and Anthropic are all using the LLM (Large Language Model Approach).
TechCrunch

Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is ...
SiliconANGLE

World Labs launches Marble, a commercial world model for generating entire virtual environments

World Labs Technologies, a company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li that’s focused on developing breakthrough artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of its first commercial world ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...