The official launch of World Labs was set for September 13. The company has raised over $230M in funding to develop “spatial artificial intelligence” systems valued at over $1 billion.
World Labs, an artificial intelligence venture, officially launched on September 13. The company has raised over $230 million in funding to develop “spatial intelligence” systems and is reportedly valued at over $1 billion. The organization will concentrate on the advancement of artificial intelligence through the implementation of 3D perception.
Fei-Fei-Li, the former head of Google Cloud AI, was a co-founder of World Labs. Fei-Fei-Li is frequently called the “Godmother of AI” due to her significant contributions to the foundational research that underpins contemporary generative artificial intelligence.
Additionally, she is the current co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
World Labs Spatial Artificial intelligence
World Labs identifies its principal product as “Large World Models” (LWMs). A blog post announcing the company’s launch noted that modern generative AI models are limited to interacting with the world through text, audio, and video.
In contrast, humans perceive the world as a three-dimensional space governed by physics related to the passage of time.
Following the blog post made:
“We hope this will unlock new capabilities for creative users and professionals such as artists, designers, developers, and engineers. It will also allow anyone to imagine and create their own worlds, expanding the potential of generative AI from 2D images and videos to 3D worlds.”
World Labs aims to establish a connection between artificial agents capable of perceiving 3D worlds and AI models that interpret the world through a 2D lens. “creating and editing virtual spaces complete with physics, semantics, and control.”
“We anticipate this will enable creative users and professionals, including artists, designers, developers, and engineers, to access new capabilities.” Additionally, it will enable individuals to envision and construct their worlds, extending generative AI’s potential from 2D images and videos to 3D worlds.
Metaverse
The concept, in its entirety, appears to be a reverse metaverse for AI. In the human world, enterprise metaverse technology is frequently employed as a training instrument to equip employees with the necessary skills to operate in hazardous environments.
The emergence of an AI model capable of exploring the actual world or a metaverse equivalent could result in the development of more intelligent models in nearly every domain, with a significant impact in robotics and virtual worlds.
Ultimately, it seems that the company is striving to create an AI model capable of generating entire 3D virtual worlds, such as video game environments, with the same power and efficiency as modern LLMs, such as ChatGPT, which create text.
