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World Labs has released Frameboy, a research preview that lets people steer through AI-generated 3D scenes as they appear, rather than waiting for a finished video. The shift makes scene exploration interactive, though the experience currently relies on a powerful cloud GPU and is not cheap compared with local rendering.

Discussion spark: Would you rather have a world model generate a polished video from a planned camera path, or let you explore a rougher scene live and steer it yourself?

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World Labs has introduced Frameboy, a research preview that lets people roam through a 3D world generated from a single image, streamed in a browser at up to 15 frames per second. It is a move from generating a world to letting people explore it as it appears, though the preview still leans on powerful cloud GPUs and has a visible speed limit.

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World Labs, the spatial-intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, has signed a definitive agreement to join AMD in a deal valued at about $8.2bn. The transaction would bring a company building AI models of the three-dimensional world into AMD, a major computing and semiconductor business.

Discussion spark: Should AMD let World Labs develop its world models independently, or is close integration the better route to making spatial AI useful?

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