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.
AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2B
AMD agrees to buy World Labs for $8.2B in stock; the deal is pending.
World Labs introduces Atlas
World Labs introduces Atlas, a unified model for 3D generation and simulation.
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.
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.
