World Labs

Nvidia acquires open-model platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, while CrowdStrike launches its own security frontier models. Hugging Face gives developers access to open-source models they use to build applications and optimize them for specific AI chips, creating a broad ecosystem that could increase demand for Nvidia computing. Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and World Labs also release new models amid a fast-moving AI race.

Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

World Labs, Fei-Fei Li’s AI startup, debuts Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates navigable 3D environments from a single image. It accepts camera trajectories and geometry as inputs, produces up to a minute of 1440p video and 3D assets, and targets uses including visual effects, game design and robotics simulation. World Labs says Atlas performs well in camera-path and sparse-input geometry evaluations; it is in early access for select enterprises, with general release timing undisclosed.

Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

World Labs introduces Atlas, a next-generation world model designed for spatial intelligence. Pretrained from scratch as a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, Atlas operates on text, images, video, and 3D within a shared spatial context. It supports camera-controlled generation of videos up to one minute at 1440p, spatial reconstruction, space-time simulation, and text-to-image generation. World Labs says Atlas will power future versions of Marble and other products.

Sep 2026 · worldlabs.aiNews article

World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raises $1 billion in a new funding round. The company plans to pursue a novel approach to spatial intelligence and 3D world modeling.

Feb 2026 · BloombergNews article