The next frontier of artificial intelligence: world models
For film, gaming, and beyond
We love to tell stories
Humans have always been storytellers. Our earliest ancestors told tales around campfires. We created the novel, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Vedas, The Analects, and One Thousand and One Nights. We broadcast pivotal moments to millions on television. We crafted cinematic masterpieces that shaped us, and pioneered visual effects that transported us to far-away lands. We created Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather, Star Wars, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and Interstellar.
As technology has evolved, our stories have too.
A new technology is emerging
World models are the newest and most unexplored major frontier in all of artificial intelligence. Imagine worlds that build themselves in real-time, that feel indistinguishable from reality, where new stories can be born and remixed, and where human and machine intelligence can interact for fun or purpose. Just like it was impossible to predict all the ways language models would change the world, we think the same is true of world models and their vast potential.
Enter Explorer—our first world model. Explorer is an image-to-world model that transforms any image into a realized, detailed 3D world. Although early, world models like Explorer offer the promise to significantly accelerate the creation of film and gaming-compatible worlds, in addition to enabling brand new applications or forms of entertainment. If this sounds interesting, we invite you to , exploring a role with us, or by following us.
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Meet the team
Our team has delivered state-of-the-art AI at companies such as Cruise, Waymo, Wayve, Tesla, Microsoft, Meta, and NVIDIA. We also have deep experience in computer graphics research, with lead engineers from video games like Spore, SimCity, The Sims, Alien: Isolation, and the Tom Clancy series, alongside technical artists behind films like Dune 2, Godzilla, The Creator, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alita: Battle Angel, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Multiple members of our team have won BAFTAs.
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