a16z shares World Labs' Atlas model for spatial intelligence from few photos
Posts highlight Atlas's new view prediction approach that unifies generation and reconstruction, cutting required photos for 3D capture from 100-300 down to three.
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a16z@a16zWorld Labs co-founder Justin Johnson says Atlas can recreate the famous "Bullet Time" shot from The Matrix with iPhones: "The way they did that shot is they had a ring of hundreds of cameras. [Neo] fell over in the studio, they had hundreds of cameras viewing that angle on a…
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A1 a16z@a16z>be dr. fei-fei li >born in beijing, raised in chengdu >dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16 >speak almost no english >parents open a dry cleaner >work the counter on weekends >get into princeton on a full scholarship >study physics, because why not >caltech phd >everyone…
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A1 a16z@a16z>blogs about ray tracing for a CS project in 2012 >co-founds World Labs in 2024 >ships Atlas in 2026, a spatial intelligence model that turns a few photos into a whole 3D world curiosity compounds
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