World models

San Francisco spatial-intelligence AI lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, building models that generate, reconstruct and simulate interactive 3D environments from text, image and video inputs. AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in September 2026; the transaction has not yet closed.

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs is Yann LeCun's AI startup focused on world models and alternatives to token-prediction-centric language models.

Frontier AI research lab spun out of the gameplay-clip platform Medal. Trains agents on large volumes of game video to develop spatial-temporal reasoning, with a $134M seed round.

Develops low-latency generative systems spanning model optimization, live video transformation and interactive world models. Its technology supports media applications and simulation for robotics, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems.

San Francisco startup developing general-purpose foundation models for robotics—control policies intended to transfer across many robots and tasks.

Google DeepMind combines the lineages of DeepMind and Google Brain in a single research organization. Its work spans frontier models, reinforcement learning, scientific discovery, robotics, and responsible AI, with major systems including Gemini, AlphaGo, and AlphaFold.

Pioneers an end-to-end approach to automated driving in which models learn directly from diverse driving data rather than relying on detailed maps and hand-built modules. Its research also spans driving-focused world models, vision-language systems and simulation.