Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

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Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.

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September 1, 2026 Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.

World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence.

Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation world model. Atlas is an omni model that we pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D. It is a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer: all inputs are combined into a shared spatial context. Atlas uses that context to generate what comes next, staying consistent in 3D with everything it has seen and imagining what lies beyond it. Atlas is built to scale: its performance improves with increased training compute, and we expect this trend to hold as we continue scaling.

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