Pure-Play World-Model Companies
- Overworld (Louis Castricato, Shahbuland Matiana, Andrew Lapp...)
- World Labs (Keunhong Park, Jason Bunk, Mohamed El Banani, Julian Quevedo...)
- General Intuition (Eloi Alonso, Vincent Micheli, Adam Jelley, Anthony Hu...)
- OdysseyML (Ahmad Nazeri, Amogh Adishesha, Jenny Seidenschwarz, Richard Shen, Sarah King, Tobiah Rex, Vighnesh Birodkar...)
- Decart (Dean Leitersdorf, Orian Leitersdorf, Moshe Shalev...)
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Dynamics Lab (Joe Chen, Ruizhou Ding, Yemin Shi): Founder hired by Roblox, site is dead - 💀
Morpheus (Xun Huang, Guande He, Yongqi Chen...): Company acquired by Roblox - Reactor (Bryce Schmidtchen, Alberto Taiuti, Davide Locatelli...)
- Lucid (Rami Seid)
- Alakazam (Hugo Hernández)
- Slunk Systems (Levi Fussell)
- Dream Labs (Joel Jang?)
- One World AI (Sherry Yang?)
- Robbyant
Media-Creation Companies Also Building World Models
- RunwayML (Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz...)
- Roblox (Alberto Hojel, EDIT: Joe Chen, Xun Huang...)
- Moonlake (Fan-Yun Sun, Sharon Lee...)
- VAST (Tripo)
- Skywork AI
- Kuaishou
Robotics Companies Also Building World Models
- Wayve
- Tesla
- 1x
- Embo (Danijar Hafner, Wilson Yan...)
- Rhoda AI (Eric Ryan Chan, Changan Chen, Leo Dong...)
- Xpeng
- Comma AI
- GigaAI
Big Tech Companies Also Building World Models
World-Model-Adjacent Companies
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Real-time character video startups ("video chat with AI" often also uses interactive causal autoregressive video models, just on an extremely limited domain... kinda interchangeable with puppeteered 3D models at a certain point... but I guess it counts...)
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Real-time autoregressive model companies that could conceivably add a video output interface soon...