Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup

More commercialization of machine learning & AI!

When top ML & AI researchers become entrepreneurs!

"Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed what it’s building — and several key details have been hiding in plain sight.

On its newly launched website, the startup disclosed its plans to develop “world models” in order to “build intelligent systems that understand the real world.” The focus on world models was already hinted at by AMI’s name, which stands for Advanced Machine Intelligence, but it has now officially joined the ranks of the hottest AI research startups. ...

World Labs, a direct rival founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, became a unicorn shortly after coming out of stealth. After launching its first product, Marble, which generates physically sound 3D worlds, World Labs is now reportedly in talks to raise fresh funding at a valuation of $5 billion. ..."

Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup | TechCrunch

AMI Labs website not quite ready for business?

An updated list of 13 nuclear fusion startups that have raised over $100M

Will the enormous energy demand of machine learning & AI and data centers finally drive the commercialization of nuclear fusion as a economical source of power generation? 

"Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines.

The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today ... to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to upend trillion-dollar markets. ..."

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M | TechCrunch

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

Good news!

"World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is now available via freemium and paid tiers that let users turn text prompts, photos, videos, 3D layouts, or panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments.

The launch of the generative world model, first released in limited beta preview two months ago, comes a little over a year after World Labs came out of stealth with $230 million in funding, and puts the startup ahead of competitors building world models. World models are AI systems that generate an internal representation of an environment, and can be used to predict future outcomes and plan actions. ..."

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch

World Labs

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

Credits: Last Week in AI

Fei-Fei Li (Source)

Inside the lab trying to commercialise nuclear fusion in Canada, CEO is 24 years old

Recommendable! The race is on!

165-mile Project Skyway to become the world's longest highway for drones in the Uk

Good news! This is only the beginning of something great to come!

"A stretch of airspace spanning 165 miles (265 km) across England is set to become the world's longest dedicated drone corridor, with the UK government approving plans for the initiative as part of a wider push into next-generation aviation. Called Skyway, the drone superhighway will connect towns and cities, and will initially be used to survey infrastructure such as roads and ports. ...
The Skyway project will be centered on the town of Reading, and will connect with other towns and cities in the area, including Oxford, Cambridge and Milton Keynes. ..."

165-mile Project Skyway to become the world's longest highway for drones

5 collaborative robot trends

Recommendable! Short and sweet!

5 collaborative robot trends to watch Collaborative robots – or cobots – are becoming a mainstream technology. As they do, new varieties of cobot are being released, and new industries are being targeted. In this article, we take a look at a number of recent cobot trends.

Commercial Or Civilian Use Of Drones

Trigger

Amazon just announced that it contemplates to deliver orders by drones in the future.

Here is e.g. a German language article.

Greeted With Ridicule And Protest

Does it matter whether you order is delivered to your home within a day or only hours? This objection is missing the point.

Drones would record images (perhaps intimate) of the destination and people as they approach. This can easily be taken care of.

Some complain of the impending chaos or buzzing of a myriad of drones over our heads. This is not serious anyway and can be solved.

Terrorists would be too happy to deliver bombs anywhere. Well, they could do this already with remote controlled hobby planes.

Advantages

Following list of non exhaustive points are speculative:

1. Energy savings
2. Cost savings
3. Less surface traffic congestion
4. Less air pollution
5. Logistics improvements
6. Urgent and perhaps life saving deliveries could benefit
7. New applications will be conceived

Australia is a sparsely populated continent. Here drone delivery probably would make a lot of sense and, I believe, it is already being done. China is reported to use drones for deliveries.