# What is true on World Models?

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## On this layer

- org — world-labs (6)
- org — [NVIDIA](https://web-production-180a9.up.railway.app/companies/nvidia) (5)
- org — 2077 Ventures (2)
- org — Khosla Ventures (2)
- org — Promise (2)
- org — Radical Ventures (2)
- org — Veeda AI (2)
- org — a16z New Media (1)
- org — ADLINK (1)
- org — Anthropic (1)
- org — Atlas (1)
- org — Atlas model for spatial intelligence. (1)
- org — Axis Robotics (1)
- org — Booster Robotics (1)
- org — Columbia University (1)
- org — development timeline of Moby. (1)
- org — development timeline reduction. (1)
- org — DROID dataset robot interaction data (1)
- org — filtered simulation episodes (1)
- org — G1 humanoid grasp and lift task (1)
- org — [Google](https://web-production-180a9.up.railway.app/companies/google) (1)
- org — Harvard University (1)
- org — historic crime scenes (1)
- org — Hydra-0 training (1)
- org — investment in Veeda (1)
- org — LimX Dynamics (1)
- org — Moby deployment in a semiconductor facility. (1)
- org — Noble Machines (1)
- org — OpenAI (1)
- org — Pixomondo (1)
- org — robot interaction data from the DROID dataset (1)
- org — Schaeffler (1)
- org — Seeed (1)
- org — Solomon (1)
- org — successful grasps by the G1 humanoid on hardware. (1)
- org — TRON 2 (1)
- org — Veeda (1)
- org — video generation (1)
- org — ZiNovaLabs (1)

## Who captures

- NVIDIA (4)
- world-labs (4)
- Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti (3)
- Veeda AI (2)
- Promise (2)
- @rimtoln (1)
- Anthropic (1)
- ZiNovaLabs (1)
- @drfeifei (1)
- Axis Robotics (1)
- @EdmondIsARobot (1)
- Edmond (1)

## Sourced numbers

- **Hydra-0 training:** 2202 hrs
  - _"It was trained on about 2,202 hours of multi-embodiment video spanning human hands, handheld grippers, single-arm robots and bimanual systems."_
  - Source: [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2095145553482891753)
- **TRON 2:** 1 units
  - _"TRON 2 serves as a modular and extensible embodied robotic platform for multi-tool, multi-step tasks across large workspaces."_
  - Source: [LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows.

@ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, includi… / X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2095114381818253768)
- **Moby deployment in a semiconductor facility.:** 3 units
  - _"bring two Moby3 units to a semiconductor facility for material-handling workflows."_
  - Source: [Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2094923298589024698)
- **development timeline of Moby.:** $3
  - _"Accelerate Moby's development timeline by nearly 3x, from an expected four years to 18 months."_
  - Source: [Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2094923298589024698)
- **development timeline reduction.:** 18 hrs
  - _"from an initial estimated timeline of four years with 50 people to 18 months with 15 people."_
  - Source: [Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2094923298589024698)
- **Atlas model for spatial intelligence.:** 1 units
  - _"Atlas is our scalable foundation model that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with virtual and physical worlds."_
  - Source: [World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch.

This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models, benefiting from the architectural, algorithmic, and systems advances from both areas." / X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839768115036581)
- **Atlas:** 1 units
  - _"Atlas is built to scale: its performance improves with increased training compute, and we expect this trend to hold as we continue scaling."_
  - Source: [Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839769616589051)
- **@mushman1970 2094416619275473057:** $90M
  - _"$90M"_
  - Source: [Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build "The Matrix" for Physical AI - WOWTALE](https://x.com/mushman1970/status/2094416619275473057)
- **investment in Veeda:** $90million
  - _"Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product."_
  - Source: [Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product.

nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots learn inside 🧵" / X](https://x.com/decepticons0101/status/2092904684730081387)
- **filtered simulation episodes:** 180.55 hrs
  - _"42,046 episodes and 3,249,835 frames remained, equivalent to 180.55 hours at 5 Hz."_
  - Source: [Axis Robotics × Booster: From Digital Twins to a Robot Data Engine](https://x.com/axisrobotics/status/2092884880430661971)
- **robot interaction data from the DROID dataset:** 62 hrs
  - _"Meta reports using 62 hours of robot interaction data from the DROID dataset for this stage."_
  - Source: [🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma](https://x.com/EdmondIsARobot/status/2092037991619530779)
- **historic crime scenes:** 10 units
  - _"to recreate ten historic crime scenes that no longer existed."_
  - Source: [From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2090479434927411551)
- **G1 humanoid grasp and lift task:** 10 units
  - _"G1 humanoid · grasp & lift · ten successes in a row"_
  - Source: [Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL](https://coupled-global-local-wm-rl.pages.dev/)
- **successful grasps by the G1 humanoid on hardware.:** 10 units
  - _"G1 humanoid · grasp & lift · ten successes in a row"_
  - Source: [Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL](https://x.com/RoboPapers/status/2092642979466915921)
- **DROID dataset robot interaction data:** 62 hrs
  - _"Meta reports using 62 hours of robot interaction data from the DROID dataset for this stage."_
  - Source: [🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma](https://luma.com/5h9owhri)
- **video generation:** 1 units
  - _"Atlas generates images and videos from one or more images with pixel-perfect camera control, outputting up to 1 minute of video at 1440p."_
  - Source: [World Labs Atlas](https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas)

## Pulse

- [@rimtoln on X](https://x.com/rimtoln/status/2095568388684738657)
  EVERYONE SHOWS THE 300-AGENT SWARM. almost nobody shows what happens after 300 agents are easy to spawn turning 300 outputs into one structure is the hard part ▹ the pipeline nobody demos collect → co…
- [@MParekh on X](https://x.com/MParekh/status/2095258950320996639)
  ‘New and Improved’ in AI Models, Anthropic, OpenAI &amp; Google. ARD #154 ...Fable 5.1’s fine print. Astra tips out on cyber. Gemini narrows the gap. World models level up. Full writeup and source lin…
- [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2095145553482891753)
  We’re cooked if robots can start learning from bodies they don’t even have. NVIDIA Brown Columbia and Harvard researchers released Hydra-0, a world model that represents robot actions as pixel motion.…
- [LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows.

@ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, includi… / X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2095114381818253768)
  Post Log in Sign up Post LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovati…
- [Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2094923298589024698)
  Manufacturing \| Robotics Noble Machines Accelerates General Purpose Industrial Robot Development With NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Learn More Objective Noble Machines is advancing industrial robot development …
- [@drfeifei on X](https://x.com/drfeifei/status/2094910083444707551)
  @DrJimFan @theworldlabs Indeed Jim, a camera conditioned world model with spatial context has so much horizontal usage including real2sim for robotics!
- [Seeed reBot Arm B601-RS: Physical AI & VLA Model Course | NVIDIA DLI Series](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2094850247184826558)
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- [World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch.

This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models, benefiting from the architectural, algorithmic, and systems advances from both areas." / X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839768115036581)
  Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch. This foundation blends the be…
- [Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839769616589051)
  September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world…
- [Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build "The Matrix" for Physical AI - WOWTALE](https://en.wowtale.net/2026/08/31/234943)
  Skip to content - AI - · - Funding - · - Robotics Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build “The Matrix” for Physical AI 8/31/2026 ・ 버섯돌이(Taehyun Kim) Training a robot to master a new motion takes thousands …
- [Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build "The Matrix" for Physical AI - WOWTALE](https://x.com/mushman1970/status/2094416619275473057)
  Skip to content - AI - · - Funding - · - Robotics Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build “The Matrix” for Physical AI 8/31/2026 ・ 버섯돌이(Taehyun Kim) Training a robot to master a new motion takes thousands …
- [Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product.

nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots learn inside 🧵" / X](https://x.com/decepticons0101/status/2092904684730081387)
  Post Log in Sign up Post Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a …
- [Axis Robotics × Booster: From Digital Twins to a Robot Data Engine](https://x.com/axisrobotics/status/2092884880430661971)
  Back How task-aligned simulation, real demonstrations, and continued pretraining can make each new Booster task easier to build than the last. Robot learning has a model problem. More importantly, it …
- [🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma](https://x.com/EdmondIsARobot/status/2092037991619530779)
  Hosted By Edmond Jono Hart James (Jingxi) Xu Mene Mazarakis Angela Zhang Manfredi Bernardi Adam 134 Went Akshobhya Gupta, Hannah Tsui and 132 others Contact the Host Report Event AI 🤖🍨 Sundae Roboti…
- [Bringing Marble to Life | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2090479436550602863)
  Nov 12, 2025A behind-the-scenes look at how Marble powered the creation of its own launch story. Bringing Marble to Life World Labs: Just Imagine - YouTube Tap to unmute World Labs: Just Imagine World…
- [From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2090479434927411551)
  Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid …
- [Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL](https://coupled-global-local-wm-rl.pages.dev/)
  Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and E…
- [Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL](https://x.com/RoboPapers/status/2092642979466915921)
  Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and E…
- [Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL](https://x.com/RoboPapers/status/2093005367567347970)
  Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and E…
- [From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs](https://www.worldlabs.ai/case-studies/from-archive-to-production)
  Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid …
- [🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma](https://luma.com/5h9owhri)
  Hosted By Edmond Jono Hart James (Jingxi) Xu Mene Mazarakis Angela Zhang Manfredi Bernardi Adam 134 Went Akshobhya Gupta, Hannah Tsui and 132 others Contact the Host Report Event AI 🤖🍨 Sundae Roboti…
- [World Labs Atlas](https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas)
  September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world…

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