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Overview

World Labs is a spatial-intelligence startup founded by fei-fei-li (2024) building world models that perceive, generate, and interact with 3D environments. Raised 5B valuation ($1.23B total).

Recent Developments

  • 2026-07-21: Acquired scenix robotics/simulation startup (2026-07-21-world-labs-scenix-acquisition)
  • 2026-07-28: Published R2S2R (Real-to-Sim-to-Real) engine early results — one real task → thousands of sim variants; sim-only policies ran ~1 hour on ALOHA hardware (2026-07-28-world-labs-r2s2r-primary-blog)
  • Sim evaluation preserved policy ranking on cube-handoff benchmarks across GR00T N1.6, π₀.₅ variants
  • No public SDK/API announced as of Aug 2026

Benchmark scope limited to manipulation/cube-handoff tasks — not generalized robotics proof.

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