Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars

Meta connected Wednesday announced it's rolling retired a caller AI "world model" that tin amended recognize the 3D situation and movements of carnal objects.

The tech giant, which owns fashionable societal media apps Facebook and Instagram, said its caller open-source AI exemplary V-JEPA 2 tin understand, foretell and program successful the carnal world. Known arsenic a satellite model, these systems instrumentality inspiration from the logic of the carnal satellite to physique an interior simulation of reality, allowing AI to learn, plan, and marque decisions successful a much human-like manner.

For example, successful the lawsuit of Meta's caller model, V-JEPA 2 tin admit that a shot rolling disconnected a array volition fall, oregon that an entity hidden retired of presumption hasn't conscionable vanished.

Artificial quality has been a cardinal absorption for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arsenic the institution faces contention from players similar OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Meta is set to put $14 cardinal into artificial quality steadfast Scale AI and prosecute its CEO Alexandr Wang to bolster its AI strategy, radical acquainted with the substance archer CNBC.

Meta touted the benefits of its caller V-JEPA 2 exemplary successful machines similar transportation robots and self-driving cars. These machines request to beryllium capable to recognize their surroundings successful real-time to navigate the carnal world.

Rather than relying connected ample amounts of labelled information oregon video footage, V-JEPA 2 reasons successful a simplified "latent" abstraction to recognize however objects move, interact and respond, the tech elephantine said.

In September past year, starring AI researcher Fei-Fei Li raised $230 cardinal for a caller startup called World Labs, which aims to make what it calls "large satellite models" that tin amended recognize the operation of the carnal world.

Meanwhile, Google's DeepMind portion has been processing a satellite exemplary of its ain called Genie, which it says tin simulate games and 3D environments successful existent time.