Daniel Chao

Systems, Platforms, and Infrastructure.
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[World Labs @theworldlabs]

The future of AI should be grounded in human agency, creativity, and understanding.

@FastCompany explores the rise of world models and features insights from World Labs cofounder @drfeifei:

"Her vision for World Labs—and its human-centered future—is both consistent and persistent. It's like a simulation in her world model. Once in place, it stays put."

Read the full article here ↓

[Daniel Chao @DanielChao4]

So proud these guys!

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Today we are sharing three new research papers, each exploring a new way to generate 3D content by leveraging large-scale generative models and 2D priors.

These projects were led by our incredible interns @HaoZhang623 @BDuisterhof @DrTunnels

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[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Happy hour at #CVPR2026 tomorrow 🍸

Come meet @a16z infra + a dozen of the best generative media & computer vision teams in one place.

I can promise great food, drinks, and company!

RSVP👇

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/Kt50ttQRMJ

[spark @sparkjsdev]

Spark 2.0 is here! 🚀

We’re redefining what’s possible on the web with a streamable LoD system for 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Built on Three.js, you can now stream massive 100M+ splat worlds to any device from mobile to VR using WebGL2. All open-source.

Dive into the tech 👇

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Capture your space. Create worlds.

Use Marble 1.1 to reconstruct real-world locations from a few images, then restyle them however you want.

Go from a real place to a custom persistent 3D world in minutes.

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

We're excited to be rolling out two model updates today!

Marble 1.1: Improves lighting and contrast, with a major reduction in visual artifacts.

Marble 1.1-Plus: Our new model built for scale. Create larger, more complex environments than ever before.

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

This entire cyberpunk world was built by a single creator.

100 million Gaussian splats, with nearly every surface and structure generated in Marble.

We’re entering an era where individuals can build entire worlds.

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Text became the universal interface for software.

3D is becoming the universal interface for space.

It’s the medium that lets humans and AI generate, edit, simulate, and share worlds together.

https://t.co/hd0PMNTv6j

[Daniel Chao @DanielChao4]

@amiruci @theworldlabs @BenMildenhall @drfeifei Up and to the right! So happy to be on this journey with you and the team 🙂

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

We’re hosting our first-ever hackathon next Friday in SF.
Come build at the frontier of spatial intelligence.
Apply below ↓

[Daniel Chao @DanielChao4]

I’m so excited and so proud to share that we at @theworldlabs have raised $1B in new funding 🚀

⚠️BUT⚠️This is only the beginning and it is ever more important to accelerate our build!! 💪🏎️

Join us if you are excited to both sprint and marathon with us 🤜💪

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

World Labs has raised $1 billion in new funding. We are grateful and excited to partner with our investors, including AMD, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, NVIDIA, and Sea, among others.

https://t.co/MfK7mLGKPH

[Daniel Chao @DanielChao4]

Today we launch the public API for World Labs!! 🚀

With the API, you can now develop your own creative 3D applications that directly integrates with our world generation engine.

Stay tuned for many more things to come - for now, go have at it - and feedback always welcome 😄

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

The World API is live.

Generate persistent, explorable 3D worlds from text, images, and video.

Integrate them directly into your products.

[Ian Curtis @XRarchitect]

Visualizing my re-designed living room in 3D

Nano banana -> World Labs -> WebAR (threejs)

Each of these gaussian splats are only 1.5 mb in size (.spz file type)

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Researchers are exploring Marble’s generative 3D worlds as a way to rapidly produce simulation-ready environments for robotics without manual scene construction.

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Filmmaker Josh Kerr re-created one of his childhood projects using Marble and Lightcraft to bring an early vision to life in a new way. How he created it in thread.

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Today, we’re sharing a behind-the-scenes look at how we used Marble to create the worlds you see in our launch video.

[Daniel Chao @DanielChao4]

I'm so proud of our team @theworldlabs !!! This the beginning of a new era for interactive, editable, consistent, and beautiful 3D world models 🚀🚀🚀

[World Labs @theworldlabs]

Introducing Marble by World Labs: a foundation for a spatially intelligent future.

Create your world at https://t.co/V267VJu1H9

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, and imagination into creation. But what is it? Why does it matter? How do we build it? And how can we use it?

Today, I want to share with you my thoughts on building and using world models to unlock spatial intelligence in this essay below. 1/n

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ I got [ 🌐 Make 3d world ] working now with @theworldlabs

🏡 Interior AI is the first app to integrate World Labs groundbreaking (and still experimental) world model 😊

You can now redesign any part of your home and then instantly walk through it in 3d

Now LIVE for everyone