Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

In March, Google showed off its first Genie AI model. After training on thousands of hours of 2D run-and-jump video games, the model could generate halfway-passable interactive impressions of those ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” ...

Google DeepMind and startup World Labs this week both revealed previews of AI tools that can be used to create immersive 3D environments from simple prompts. World Labs, the startup founded by AI ...

World Labs Technologies, a company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li that’s focused on developing breakthrough artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of its first commercial world ...

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top ...

Micro-World is a world model developed using over 6,000 Minecraft gameplay videos based on the video generation AI Wan 2.1, and allows users to create freely navigable 3D worlds using keyboard and ...