Today’s AI is still unreliable. Some researchers think solving that problem requires teaching AI systems to understand the world around them.

Startup Shengshu plans to use the money for a "general world model," paving the way for more practical robot applications.

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...

The concept is just one of a number of new Yoga and Legion products that Lenovo unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2026. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering laptops and video games. He's previously ...

Project Genie allows people outside of Google to try the company's Genie 3 world model. (Google) This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system ...

What if you could turn a simple photo into a fully realized 3D model, all without spending a dime? Below, Matthew Berman takes you through how SAM 3D, an open source platform from Meta, is ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

3D technology is used in a wide range of fields, including film, video games, architecture, engineering, and product design. It allows designers to create digital models of objects that can be ...

Marble can reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds—think of it as a type of “world model.” In an interview with Fast Company, Li describes world models as a “significant” evolution of the ...

A few years ago, AI-generated 3D modeling belonged to research labs and Hollywood studios. Today, it’s seeping into classrooms, social media memes, and mainstream creative tools — and it’s doing so ...

On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” ...