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Origin Lab is building a marketplace to connect AI world-model developers with video game studios, solving the critical data bottleneck for physical AI.
Origin Lab has secured $8M in seed funding to create a marketplace where AI labs can license high-fidelity physics and spatial data from video game developers.
An analysis of Pope Leo's latest encyclical on AI and why a single quote from J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf may be a calculated response to Peter Thiel's tech-messianism.
Origin Lab secures $8M to bridge the gap between game developers and AI labs, turning virtual physics and assets into training data for world models.
An analysis of Pope Leo's new encyclical on AI, featuring a surprising Gandalf quote that may be a pointed message to venture capitalist Peter Thiel.