AI & Tech

World models (systems that synthesize realistic video sequences from an initial image and a set of actions) are becoming central to embodied AI, simulation, and robotics research. The core challenge is scaling these systems to generate minute-long, high-resolution video without requiring prohibitively large clusters for both training and inference. Most competitive open-source baselines either require…

AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders — two from Chile, one from Greece —  met at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and built the company in New York. Runway…

Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as from strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the…