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World Labs Launches API for On-Demand 3D World Generation
World Labs has launched the World API, a tool for generating explorable 3D environments from text, images, panoramas, and video. Powered by Marble, the company’s multimodal world model
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NBA Launchpad Reveals 2026 Tech Cohort Focused on Cognitive, Spatial, and Fan Engagement Tools
The NBA has announced the latest group in its Launchpad program, which finds and tests new technologies that could shape the future of basketball. For its fifth year, the league picked five companies from a pool of over 200 applicants.
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1X NEO Uses Generated Video to Act in the Real World
1X has introduced 1XWM, a world model that enables robots to take real-world actions by generating video predictions. Unlike common robot systems that learn through large volumes of robot-specific data, 1XWM is trained primarily on internet-scale human video.
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Caterpillar Expands NVIDIA Partnership to Power Autonomy and Virtual Manufacturing
Caterpillar has expanded its partnership with NVIDIA to apply AI across its core operations, including connected machines, autonomous systems, voice interfaces, and manufacturing infrastructure.
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Tencent Releases HY-Motion 1.0, a Breakthrough in Text-to-3D Human Motion
Tencent has open-sourced HY-Motion 1.0, a new family of models that generate 3D human motion from text prompts. Built on Diffusion Transformers and Flow Matching, Tencent says it is the first model of its kind to reach a billion parameters
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Siemens Launches Digital Twin Platform to Accelerate Autonomous Driving Development
Siemens has launched PAVE360 Automotive, a digital twin platform designed to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles. The system lets automakers and suppliers begin building and testing complete vehicle systems
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Apple’s SHARP Turns a Single Image into a 3D Scene in Under a Second
Apple has released SHARP, a new neural network that turns a single photo into a detailed 3D scene. It builds a representation made of 3D Gaussian elements that capture the scene’s surfaces, depth, and lighting at real-world scale.
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mimic-video Uses Pretrained Video Models to Improve Robot Learning Efficiency by 10x
mimic-video is a new robot control system from teams at mimic robotics, Microsoft Zurich, ETH Zurich, ETH AI Center, and UC Berkeley. The team says that the new model helps robots learn faster and with less training data.
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Moonlake Unveils Reverie, a Real-Time Generative Model Purpose-Built for Games
Reverie is a diffusion model built to operate inside real-time simulations, generating content at frame time without interrupting play. It supports unbounded runtime, persistent visuals, and developer control through logic-driven, programmable interactions.
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Google DeepMind Simulates Robot Behavior Using Veo World Model
DeepMind and the Gemini Robotics team built a simulation system using Veo, Google's generative video model, to evaluate robot control policies without needing physical robots.
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SpAItial Launches Echo to Instantly Generate Fully Navigable 3D Worlds
SpAItial has launched Echo, a world model that turns an image or text prompt into a full 3D environment. The scenes are built at real-world scale and can be explored, edited, and expanded directly in the browser.
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Helm.ai Cuts Data Requirement for Urban Autonomy to Just 1,000 Hours
Helm.ai, a company building full-stack driving software for self-driving, has introduced a new AI architecture that can autonomously steer through complex city environments it has never encountered before, using only 1,000 hours of real-world driving data.