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World Labs is Joining AMD

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  1. avaer · · focus · HN ↗
    Assuming this means AMD wants to jumpstart competition with NV on a model/simulation ecosystem (which NV has been doing for ~a decade). Probably has at least something to do with NV acquiring HF.

    I'm not sure how much things like Omniverse are used, but NV has put out some really interesting stuff in the space (like for example ARTY for a somewhat recent example).

    Overall it seems like a financial vote of confidence for "world models" (whatever that means, I still don't know). But it could also mean the death of the interesting things WL was doing with Marble + Atlas. It's hard to read PR.

    1. binsquare · · focus · HN ↗
      it was also likely difficult to do what WL was looking to do without significant amount of compute.

      Think it's a good match

      1. wmf · · focus · HN ↗
        If the ROCm team can't get enough compute it doesn't bode well for World Labs.
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