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Kunlun Tech announced at WAIC that 2026 will be the inaugural year of world models, unveiling Matrix-Game3.5 and two other products. The model features patch-level memory injection, enabling recall of image fragments for real-time interaction.....

On July 10, Ant Lingbo unveiled LingBot-VA2.0, the first embodied native world action model. It shifts robot foundation models from digital grafting to native physical-world design, creating a 'brain' from primal interaction needs like dynamic modeling and causal prediction.....

Manifold AI, a one-year-old world-model startup, has secured hundreds of millions of yuan in funding from new investors including China Reform Fund, InnoVen Capital, BAIC Capital, and Core Energy Venture Capital, while four existing shareholders oversubscribed. Its rapid growth in the AI race has earned strong capital recognition.....

Runway, an AI video startup founded by art school graduates, has risen on a distinct path with a latest valuation of $5.3 billion. Its Q2 2026 annual recurring revenue (ARR) increased by $40 million, and its Gen-4.5 video generation model solidifies its position in Hollywood film production.....

AI competition shifts to intelligent agents. Startup NeoCognition secures $40M seed funding to enhance AI agents' reliability in complex tasks, focusing on self-learning 'world model' technology.....

Tencent's Hunyuan 3D team open-sourced WorldCompass, a reinforcement learning post-training framework designed to enhance world models' accuracy and user experience in interactions by addressing biases in handling complex instructions.....

World Labs, founded by Li Feifei, is raising $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, a fivefold increase in a year, signaling investor confidence in its leadership in the next AI frontier beyond large language models.....

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to start a venture focused on developing a 'world model' AI, seeking investment for goal-driven AI commercialization, challenging Meta's large language model strategy.....

Yann LeCun criticizes big tech's focus on large language models as a strategic error, arguing they lack true intelligence, world understanding, and reasoning. He advocates for 'world models' as the next breakthrough.....

Meituan's LongCat-Video, a DiT-based generative model, accurately reconstructs real-world dynamics. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and video continuation, marking a key advancement in world models for AI's understanding and prediction of reality.....

A company launched 'Code World Model' (CWM), enhancing AI code generation via 'world model' concept, predicting subsequent instructions during coding, endorsed by Yann LeCun.....