Building the simulation infrastructure for practical world model use
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Robotics & World Models · Track 2
- Speaker(s): Christopher Manning
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed
Official Description
What is the most important capability for world model applications and the pursuit of embodied AI?
We believe it is not a question of having the most beautiful pixels but the ability to reason about
causality in multimodal environments. At Moonlake, we are working on building action-conditioned
multimodal world models which provide spatial and physical state consistency over long time periods.
We believe that building and training on synthetic worlds provides the data and compute efficient
path to truly useful world models. We are building the simulation infrastructure platform for
companies that need to build and manage worlds (assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale, including
robotics/autonomy teams, digital factory operators, and game authors. Our product today primarily
finds applicability in simulation and the operationalization of digital twins. Simulation can
include training robotics, world models for AGI research, autonomous vehicles, or content creation
for media and entertainment. Operationalization of digital twins involves the reconstruction of
scans into reusable assets, e.g., turning image and point-cloud scans into sim ready assets for
digital factory Integration projects. We are building toward a future where AI systems do not just
generate worlds, but understand how they work. Moonlake learns from each workflow: The more
workflows, failures, and human interventions that Moonlake sees, the better it becomes at
reconstructing, validating, and preparing complex simulation worlds. The session will include
discussion and demos.
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