Tag: World models

1X goes all-in on world models, hires Luma AI head researcher

1X Technologies launches the 1X World Model Lab and hires Samarth Sinha from Luma AI. CEO Bernt Bornich declares that fine-tuning LLMs for robotics is a dead end. The company plans to ship thousands of NEO robots in 2026.

Yann LeCun: LLMs Are a Dead End. Paradigm Shift by 2027

Yann LeCun predicts a robotics paradigm shift by 2027 and criticizes VLA models as brittle and data-inefficient. AMI Labs is betting on JEPA architecture and LeWorldModel as alternatives to LLM-based approaches.

Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to Build the Android of Humanoid Robotics

Meta Platforms has acquired ARI, a startup building AI models for humanoid robots. The team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company bids to become the foundational hardware and software platform for the entire robotics industry.

World Action Models: What They Are and How They Work

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the dominant approach to building AI-driven robot control systems over the past several years. Their emerging successor — the World Action Model (WAM) — represents a distinct architectural category that replaces direct image-to-action mapping with video generation as an intermediate planning mechanism. DreamZero, developed by a team at NVIDIA and published in February 2026 as a research paper on arXiv, is the first publicly described system of this class to operate in real time on a real robot. Understanding how it works matters because it points toward a plausible direction for the next generation of robotic foundation models.

ShengShu unveils Motubrain: one AI brain for every robot platform

ShengShu Technology has unveiled Motubrain, a World Action Model that unifies video generation, world modeling, and action control in a single Mixture-of-Transformers architecture. Backed by a $293M Series B from Alibaba Cloud, the model tops RoboTwin 2.0 with 96% success across 50 randomized tasks.

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