Three VinFuture scientists will be among the 100 most influential figures in artificial intelligence globally in 2026.
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This is the problem Professor Li and her colleagues are trying to solve at World Labs, the company she co-founded in 2024. Their first product, Marble, allows users to create and explore 3D worlds from text, images, or videos, simultaneously recreating depth and spatial arrangement. One of the key applications of this technology is the creation of simulated environments to train and evaluate robots before they operate in the real world. According to TIME magazine, one of the highlights of Professor Rus's research is the development of nature-inspired AI architectures, capable of operating efficiently at a significantly smaller scale than typical neural networks trained for the same task. In 2020, Professor Rus and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a microscopic neural network inspired by the nervous system of worms, but capable of controlling cars to stay in their lanes. This line of research later became one of the pillars of Liquid AI, a company founded three years later by Professor Rus and her colleagues to develop more capable AI systems, but also more efficient in terms of computation and resources.
