Companies compete not on who owns the hardware, but on how well their models reflect reality. For the past two years, artificial intelligence has felt oddly flat.

Startup Runway has raised a $315 million round at a $5.3 billion valuation, funds it will use to expand beyond AI video ...

Agentic world models are aiding the advancement of AI in mental health. Embodiment and psychological grounding come to the fore. An AI Insider scoop.

Runway develops world models, algorithms that generate three-dimensional virtual environments based on user prompts. The company’s models are used by Shutterstock Inc., Robinhood Markets Inc. and ...

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If you follow the AI world on X, you’ve probably seen in recent weeks clips of video game-like worlds where users are playing as a dog on a sunny beach, a vial of poison in the play Hamlet or a pack ...

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...

World Labs Technologies, a company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li that’s focused on developing breakthrough artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of its first commercial world ...