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Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3, a breakthrough mixture-of-transformers omnimodel that transitions the robotics industry away from language-heavy VLA models toward native physical reasoning and action prediction.

In a new interview, the Meta Chief AI Scientist and AMI Labs founder doubles down on world models, arguing that the massive data requirements of current humanoid demos prove the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) approach is a dead end.

ShengShu Technology has announced Motubrain, a hardware-agnostic robotic brain that unifies perception and action to outperform traditional VLA models on global benchmarks.

As "world models" become the dominant paradigm in robotics, the industry is grappling with a term that means everything and nothing. We map out the competing visions from LeCun, NVIDIA, 1X, and Tesla.