world-models

Tencent's Hunyuan team released HY-World 2.0 on April 16, an open-source multi-modal foundation model that converts text or images into editable 3D assets importable into Unity, Unreal, and Isaac Sim — a sharp break from video-only world models like Google's Genie 3.

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup raises the largest seed round in European history to develop world models, an alternative AI architecture that learns from physical reality rather than text prediction.