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The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.
The Yann LeCun-backed world model startup raised $1.03B in March but is still pre-product and courting Korean robotics partners.
World Labs and AMI each raised roughly $1B, Runway added $315M — but the field still can't agree on what a world model is.
Khosla Ventures led the round on a bet that hundreds of millions of hours of human gameplay data can teach AI to navigate the physical world.
The Medal spinout building world models to train AI agents has drawn checks from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt eight months after its seed.
The world model startup raised $310M in a Series B led by Natural Capital and will move workloads onto AWS Trainium chips.
The $4B startup is pricing API access at $0.02 per second and betting developers will build on top of it like the early OpenAI ecosystem.
The New York startup added $40M in ARR in Q2 2026 and is pivoting from filmmaker tools to world models that compete with Google's Genie.
The New York startup has raised close to $860M at a $5.3B valuation and is now chasing gaming, robotics, and real-time generation.
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