Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large language models, there isn’t an easy source of data for those models, which has left many labs scrambling to assemble the necessary training sets.

Now, one startup is emerging with an unlikely data source: the video game industry.