World Labs launches Atlas: an omni world model natively spanning text, images, video and 3D
YunzhuLiYZ · x · 2026-09-16
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs introduced Atlas, a next-generation omni world model pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D. It's a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer that combines all inputs into a shared spatial context and stays 3D-consistent while imagining beyond what it sees, with performance scaling with compute.
Key capabilities:
- Camera-controlled generation: video up to 1 minute at 1440p from one or more images, with pixel-perfect camera control
- Spatial reconstruction: rebuilds real scenes from 1–dozens of images, outputting novel-view frames plus explicit 3D, beating specialized SOTA 3D reconstruction models
- Space-time simulation: models space and time from video, enabling reframing and Real-to-Sim workflows for robotics
- Image generation: text-to-image and 360 panoramas with complex prompt following and text rendering
Atlas will power future versions of Marble. World Labs is also hiring in robot learning (Yunzhu Li, Fei-Fei Li) around Atlas for Robotics and Real-to-Sim-to-Real.
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