The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an increasing number of startups and Big Tech companies by launching its first one. Dubbed GWM-1, the model ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

What if you could conjure entire 3D worlds as easily as typing a sentence or snapping a photo? Imagine describing “a futuristic city at sunset” and watching it materialize before your eyes, complete ...

The PAN AI world model developed at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi can simulate a wide range of real-world conditions for training autonomous systems, ...

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 ...

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is now available via freemium and paid tiers that let users turn text prompts, ...

Marble can reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds—think of it as a type of “world model.” In an interview with Fast Company, Li describes world models as a “significant” evolution of the ...

Over the last few months, many AI boosters have been increasingly interested in generative video models and their seeming ability to show at least limited emergent knowledge of the physical properties ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...

While sitting outside the Big Three Japanese watchmakers of Seiko, Citizen and Casio, Orient nevertheless has its fans. The brand — which for the past 16 years has had the same parent company as Seiko ...