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.

World Labs introduces Atlas, an omni world model for spatial intelligence release signal cover

Skybox AI documents pending limits

Docs added Pending Generation Limits section and 429 queue-limit response.

Blockade Labs documents plan-based pending limits for Skybox AI release signal cover

Project Genie adds Street View worlds

Genie connects to Street View scenes for AI Ultra subscribers.

Google expands Project Genie with Street View-grounded worlds release signal cover

Runway turns GWM-1 into Characters

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

Runway turns GWM-1 into a real-time character product surface release signal cover

Ant Lingguang brings world models to mobile

Lingguang world-model feature reported, still lacking primary Ant confirmation.

Ant Lingguang brings a world-model experience to mobile release signal cover

Tencent releases HY-Embodied-0.5-X

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

Tencent open-sources HY-Embodied-0.5 and extends it with 0.5-X release signal cover

Alibaba launches HappyOyster worlds

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

Alibaba launches HappyOyster for real-time world creation release signal cover

Tencent opens HY-World 2.0

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

Tencent Hunyuan opens HY-World 2.0 for persistent 3D worlds release signal cover

Robbyant releases LingBot-Map

Public benchmark and evaluation materials added around LingBot-Map.

Robbyant releases LingBot-Map for streaming 3D reconstruction release signal cover

World Labs ships Marble 1.1

Marble 1.1 and 1.1 Plus added; 1.0 stays as legacy.

World Labs rolls out Marble 1.1 and Marble 1.1 Plus release signal cover

NVIDIA previews Cosmos 3

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

NVIDIA previews Cosmos 3 as a unifying physical-AI world model release signal cover

Robbyant publishes LingBot-VA

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

Robbyant publishes LingBot-VA for robot-control world modeling release signal cover

Robbyant releases LingBot-VLA

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

Robbyant releases LingBot-VLA for embodied-AI control release signal cover

World Labs announces the World API

World API direction shifts Marble from demo toward developer platform.

World Labs announces the World API release signal cover

Project Sid simulates AI societies

World models expand from environments into many-agent social simulation.

Project Sid frames many-agent simulation as an AI civilization experiment release signal cover

Runway introduces GWM-1

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

Runway introduces GWM-1 release signal cover

World Labs launches Marble

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

World Labs launches Marble release signal cover

Google DeepMind announces Genie 3

Genie 3 presented as an interactive world-model frontier.

Google DeepMind announces Genie 3 release signal cover

NVIDIA launches Cosmos

Cosmos: world foundation model platform for physical AI development.

NVIDIA launches Cosmos release signal cover

Oasis shows a playable AI world

Action conditioning became visible in a playable world demo.

Oasis demonstrates a realtime playable AI world release signal cover

Skybox AI turns prompts into worlds

Text-to-world creation became a 360-degree environment surface.

Skybox AI keeps the entry point simple: type a place, open a world release signal cover