world-models
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Sureform
Sureform is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator X25) that collects real-world, multimodal human data to train robots and world models. It equips workers at hotels, warehouses, restaurants, construction sites, and laundromats with head-mounted cameras, stereo depth rigs, and handheld grippers that capture time-synced video, audio, pose, depth, and tactile data while they do their jobs. Each session is delivered to robotics teams as structured, synchronized, training-ready data.
Evidium
Evidium is a San Francisco healthcare-AI company building what it calls 'Referenced AI' - a neurosymbolic platform that turns medical evidence into computable knowledge. Rather than a black box, it projects patients across a computable map of clinical states and the transitions between them, so every insight traces back to guidelines, charts, and research. Founded and led by Carl Bate, the company sells transparent clinician-quality insights and probabilistic risk forecasts to health systems, insurers, and payviders, and closed a $22M Series A co-led by Health2047 (the AMA's venture studio) and WGG Partners in November 2025.
Tripo AI
Tripo AI, built by the startup VAST, is a generative-AI platform that turns text prompts and images into production-ready 3D models in seconds. Its Tripo Studio app and REST API cover the full 3D pipeline - generation, texturing, rigging, retopology, segmentation and stylization - and are used by more than 6.5 million creators and roughly 90,000 developers. Founded in 2023 by former MiniMax co-founder Simon Song, the company is pushing from single 3D assets toward interactive, persistent 'world models' and has raised close to $400 million from backers including Alibaba and Baidu Ventures.
Integral AI
Integral AI is a Japan-US startup building foundation world models - AI systems meant to learn, plan, and act in the real world the way people do, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and continuous, autonomous skill learning. Founded in 2021 by ex-Google AI leaders Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, the company positions its interactive world models as infrastructure for an AI-based economy, spanning robotics, universal simulators, and multimodal interfaces. In December 2025 it made headlines by claiming to have tested the world's first AGI-capable model, TOWA.
Decart
Decart is a frontier AI lab building real-time world models and the low-latency infrastructure that runs them. Its systems - Oasis, Lucy and the DOS optimization stack - generate and transform live video at millisecond latency, turning video games, livestreams and cameras into promptable, interactive worlds.