Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics!
Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications.
Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: https://t.co/bEkIlCKqdf).
The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at https://t.co/DhBv7NdyqH. We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future.
Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism.
We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications.
Open Source Code: https://t.co/DhBv7NdyqH
Project webpage: https://t.co/SBNyhFB0yn
Documentation: https://t.co/3yuBoaealV
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A few months ago, I did a TED talk @TEDTalks and it is now live. It was an honour of a lifetime to go on the TED stage and share some of my favourite stories featured on @theFCshow_ and to remind the one that Africa is not building.
“A new reality has emerged, one where ambitious Africans are writing their own stories as builders and as innovators”.
Watch at https://t.co/5KyfdT7Zag
@brokenbottleboy It's not quite as big as the can of worms you've opened firing staff for complaining about EDL meeting in your pubs though is it? You moron
Oh my god, can this election get any weirder?
Grant Shapps calls Sam Coates whilst he’s live on air. Sam asks him if he’s seen the poll that projects he’ll lose his seat.
Shapps hangs up.
Surprised he didn’t call back with a lady voice pretending to be Corinne Stockheath.
Remember what I said about the speed with which ridiculousness can engulf you? And, with the exception of Boris Johnson milking Brexit supporters’ 2019 desperation, there is nothing worse than ridiculousness for a campaigning politician.