Tom's Hardware · Reporting
Sep 30, 2026
Physical AI · Private company · Research
World Labs
✓ VerifiedWorld Labs is one of the most visible spatial-intelligence companies, aiming to build models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world instead of operating only over text or flat media.
San Francisco, USFounded 2024No public API trackedWeekly review target
Editorial intelligence brief
Editorial focus
Introduced Atlas on September 1, 2026, an omni world model operating on text, images, video, and 3D for generation, reconstruction, simulation, and robotics real-to-sim workflows.
Focus: World models, spatial intelligence, and robotics
Latest funding
$1B
Funding round · source-backed
Tracked funding
$1B
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Research lifecycle position
Editorially verified updates
What changed
Introduced Atlas on September 1, 2026, an omni world model operating on text, images, video, and 3D for generation, reconstruction, simulation, and robotics real-to-sim workflows.
External coverage of World Labs
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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.
World Labs · Primary source
Sep 28, 2026
Bloomberg.com · Reporting
Sep 22, 2026
Source-backed financial history
Funding and financial history
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Sum of recorded funding
$1B
Coverage
partial
Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.
One funding announcement recorded. More dated rounds are needed to show funding over time.
#1
Funding round · $1B
Running tracked total: $1B
#1
Funding round · $1B
Running tracked total: $1B
Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.
Funding round · $1B
$1B funding round.
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
AtlasMarbleRTFM
Products
AtlasMarbleWorld APIMarble LabsSpark 2.0
Open weights
No
API access
No
Review target
Weekly
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Research: Early research & prototypes
Focus
World models, spatial intelligence, and robotics
Signals
Spatial AIResearchHigh-profile teamRobotics
Taxonomy
Frontier LabsWorld modelsEmbodied AIResearch
Competitive context
AMI LabsPhysical IntelligenceGoogle DeepMind
Infrastructure & distribution
Where World Labs sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
3 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Application or managed product
03
Market layer
Physical AI
Public product surface
AtlasMarbleWorld APIMarble LabsSpark 2.0
Stack signals
World modelsEmbodied AIResearchSpatial AIHigh-profile teamRobotics
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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