Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launches world model Atlas, generating robot simulation environments from phone photos

World Labs launched its next-generation world model Atlas on September 1. It is currently not open source and is available for early trials only to a small number of partners. Atlas takes 1 to 6 reference images and a camera trajectory as input, can generate videos up to 1 minute long at 1440p, and exports point clouds and 3D Gaussian splatting, used to reconstruct real scenes as robot simulation training environments. In the official demo, 24 frames taken from a phone video were used to reconstruct a warehouse-sized space, allowing a virtual robot to walk through it and generating camera images and depth data; however, there is no public data yet on complex physical behavior or large-scale operating costs.