World Labs Is Joining AMD

This was absurdly soon.

I was also shocked by how quickly AMD acquired Talaas. AMD may be preparing for the next way (ultra fast inference, and embodied AI inference)

Congrats to the team on such a successful exit!

I'm curious how much the recent AI 3D modeling trend (Astra post-trained to use Blender) would have impacted this.

World Labs' entire tech stack becomes potentially obsolete when anyone can prompt GPT/Claude to create a simulation-ready 3D model from a photograph.

Neolabs keep moving down the stack.

Neoclouds want to do neolab things and now chipmakers want to do neolab things

Is a 2-year-old company worth 8 billion USD?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883744

Given a lot of proprietary data, how would one go about starting training a world model?

I wonder where this will lead

World Labs is really cool. The 3D reconstruction from only a handful of frames is on another level.

I'm assuming this means AMD wants to jumpstart competition with NV on a model/simulation ecosystem (which NV has been doing for ~a decade). Probably has at least something to do with NV acquiring HF.

I'm not sure how much things like Omniverse are used, but NV has put out some really interesting stuff in the space (like for example ARTY for a somewhat recent example).

Overall it seems like a financial vote of confidence for "world models" (whatever that means, I still don't know). But it could also mean the death of the interesting things WL was doing with Marble + Atlas. It's hard to read PR.

how to quickly make a couple million dollars these days: start a startup and then get acquired by AMD in a few years.