Source-backed releases
Research and Signals
Read short world model release signals organized by what changed, source confidence, affected models, and next pages to open.
World Labs introduces Atlas
World Labs introduces Atlas, a unified model for 3D generation and simulation.

Skybox AI documents pending limits
Docs added Pending Generation Limits section and 429 queue-limit response.

Project Genie adds Street View worlds
Genie connects to Street View scenes for AI Ultra subscribers.

Runway turns GWM-1 into Characters
GWM-1 moved from research into Characters, via API, web, mobile.

Ant Lingguang brings world models to mobile
Lingguang world-model feature reported, still lacking primary Ant confirmation.

Tencent releases HY-Embodied-0.5-X
HY-Embodied-0.5-X released on top of HY-Embodied-0.5.

Alibaba launches HappyOyster worlds
HappyOyster positioned as early-access product, not open-source release.

Tencent opens HY-World 2.0
Repo added HY-Pano 2.0 May 11, world-generation code May 18.

Robbyant releases LingBot-Map
Public benchmark and evaluation materials added around LingBot-Map.

World Labs ships Marble 1.1
Marble 1.1 and 1.1 Plus added; 1.0 stays as legacy.

NVIDIA previews Cosmos 3
GTC materials linked Cosmos 3 to a physical-AI data-factory blueprint.

Robbyant publishes LingBot-VA
LingBot-VA published as a causal video-action robot-control world model.

Robbyant releases LingBot-VLA
LingBot-VLA published as an open vision-language-action robot-policy release.

World Labs announces the World API
World API direction shifts Marble from demo toward developer platform.

Project Sid simulates AI societies
World models expand from environments into many-agent social simulation.

Runway introduces GWM-1
GWM-1 introduced as a general world-model direction beyond video.

World Labs launches Marble
Marble launched for creating, editing, and exploring generated 3D worlds.

Google DeepMind announces Genie 3
Genie 3 presented as an interactive world-model frontier.

NVIDIA launches Cosmos
Cosmos: world foundation model platform for physical AI development.

Oasis shows a playable AI world
Action conditioning became visible in a playable world demo.

Skybox AI turns prompts into worlds
Text-to-world creation became a 360-degree environment surface.
