Chinese tech firms and Li Fei-Fei push world models forward.

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    "excerpt": "Chinese tech firms and Li Fei-Fei push world models forward.\n\nChinese tech companies and Li Fei-Fei's World Labs are accelerating work on world models, a field focused on helping Artificial Intelligence learn from and interact with physical reality. Alibaba's new Happy Oyster system targets real-time virtual world creation with more continuous user control.\n\nCompanies ranging from the start-up launched by Artificial Intelligence \"godmother\" Li Fei-Fei to China's largest technology firms are moving quickly to release new world models. The field is aimed at extending Artificial Intelligence beyond language processing to learning from and comprehending physical reality, with virtual world generation and interaction emerging as a key area of competition.\n\nAlibaba Group Holding unveiled Happy Oyster on Thursday, describing it as an open-ended world model for real-time and \"flowy\" virtual world creation and interaction. The launch came from Alibaba Token Hub, or ATH, a newly formed business unit created to consolidate the company's core Artificial Intelligence initiatives. Happy Oyster supported two modes of virtual world creation, according to ATH: a directing mode for building a world based on text and image prompts and a wandering mode for exploring that world.\n\nUnlike conventional Artificial Intelligence video tools, which generate one-off clips that top out at a dozen seconds...",
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