Marco Demiroz

Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.

Real world. Real intelligence.

World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds – both virtual and real – endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. We believe that humans are innovative, curious, and creative; science and technology are both manifestations and drivers of these impulses. Propelling AI forward with spatial intelligence will also propel forward both individuals and humanity as a whole. Toward this goal, World Labs will develop spatially intelligent LWMs that can understand and reason about the 3D world from images and other modalities. Over time, we expect to train increasingly powerful models with broader capabilities that can be applied in a variety of domains, working alongside people. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. Our team, led by co-founders Fei-Fei Li, PhD; Justin Johnson, PhD; Christoph Lassner, PhD; and Ben Mildenhall, PhD, has a strong research background, but we are not motivated by exploration for its own sake. Instead, we believe that now is a unique moment where rapid scientific progress has thinned the barrier between research and applications. We aim to seize this opportunity, focusing on the entire throughline from research to engineering to product to people. We are bringing together the most formidable slate of pixel talent ever assembled, creating a tight feedback loop between our spatially intelligent foundation models and products that will empower our users. We invite you to learn more about joining our fast-growing team.

The ultimate #GenerativeAI machine for creating high-quality, style-consistent assets. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/scenario

Mona is a creator-first world building platform powered by web3. We are the best place for architects, game developers, and artists to start building in the metaverse. Anyone can create, explore and monetize in the Monaverse - no land, no limits. Mona’s mission is to empower people around the world to create, collect, and share high quality immersive experiences on the blockchain, growing the Open Metaverse. Using Mona's World-Building Platform, you can build for free using standard 3D creation tools like Blender, Maya, 3DStudio Max, among others, mint them on the blockchain, and publish them to the web for everyone to experience. Mona is dedicated to supporting the next generation of art driven by top 3D world builders and web3 creatives. By combining innovative metaverse tooling with the latest blockchain technology, we are establishing a new paradigm for the creation and ownership of 3D NFTs. We are backed by top investors like Protocol Labs, Archetype, Collab+Currency, Placeholder VC, The VR Fund & more. Come join us on our journey to build the Open Metaverse. If you’re a builder, join our community of talented 3D world builders, architects, game developers and artists.

Jadu AR Inc. is an augmented reality company building immersive mobile games powered by custom technology that makes high-fidelity spatial gameplay possible on everyday devices. We’ve released two titles: Jadu: Fight in AR, a real-time PvP game, and PANIC AR, a story-driven wave shooter currently in development. PANIC features hundreds of simulated enemies, 3D projectiles, and advanced post-processing effects, pushing mobile hardware to new limits. Our generative authoring tools and real-world scene understanding system enable character-driven gameplay that adapts to player actions and physical context. With over 400,000 installs and an average rating of 4.9 stars, both games have been met with excitement from players around the world. Founded in 2019, Jadu started with a fascination for virtual characters colliding with real spaces. Our early work in AR-enabled Web3 assets drove over $30M in secondary trading and included collaborations with cultural icons like Elton John, GRIMES, Lewis Hamilton, Lil Nas X, Michael Bay, Serena Williams, and Snoop Dogg. We’ve raised from investors including Bain Capital, General Catalyst, LG Tech Ventures, and Com2Us.

VLGE is a no-code world-building platform that enables creators and brands to build immersive experiences.👾

Obsess creates AI-powered virtual experiences that increase customer engagement, brand loyalty & conversion. We have launched 350+ virtual stores and experiences for leading brands such as Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, Crate & Barrel, Corona, Unilever, LOréal, Revlon, Mattel, NBCUniversal & more—empowering companies in fashion, beauty, CPG, real estate and beyond to amplify campaign activations, innovate brand marketing and enhance digital sales strategies. We are creating the next-generation e-commerce interface, an engaging, discovery-driven 3D experience that mimics IRL shopping. Virtual experiences incorporate essential e-commerce functionality such as add to cart, and include additive interactive features such as product customization and gamification. Our patented, enterprise-grade 3D rendering technology is the backbone of the Obsess platform. Obsess virtual experiences are built for cross-platform distribution so that brands can increase ROI and extend their virtual footprint across the web, mobile, Roblox and headset devices like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. Obsess’ technology has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Vogue Business, WWD, Business of Fashion, Glossy, AdAge and more. Our company is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices across the U.S. and Europe. — Why immersive experiences? Simple. We live in a world that is 3D. Today, immersive technologies are on the brink of rapid advancement—particularly with the continuous enhancement of processors and the acceleration of network speeds worldwide. The integration of 3D digital interfaces, inherently more intuitive and closely resembling human real-life interactions, will expand across the internet extensively, going beyond mere shopping experiences.

Replica (www.replicastudios.com) has developed an AI that can replicate the human voice, and have built text-to-speech software to produce expressive speech. Here are some famous voices we replicated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DgHI9J3U8 Replica is growing a marketplace where creative talent and voice actors can scale and license their voices for use in games, streaming, advertising and much more. Replica will help artists protect their voice from infringement while delivering a totally new way to make money from their voice. For media producers, Replica will be an amazing new creative tool for content production.

Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera. Focused first on powering our Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services. Phiar was founded in 2017 and is now based in Redwood City, California.

Apprentice’s Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is the first AI-powered cloud platform for batch-based manufacturing. Tempo connects your teams, systems, sites, and external partners across one cloud-based platform to provide seamless processing through every layer of your manufacturing ecosystem. By combining historically distributed systems — Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Distributed Control System (DCS), Laboratory Execution System (LES), eLogs, Work Instructions, Tempo optimizes end-to-end manufacturing processes. AI is embedded in every step of the process, driving innovation from design to creation, through to simulation and execution, delivering the power of the next generation of manufacturing technology, today. To learn more about Apprentice, visit www.apprentice.io

Apprentice’s Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is the first AI-powered cloud platform for batch-based manufacturing. Tempo connects your teams, systems, sites, and external partners across one cloud-based platform to provide seamless processing through every layer of your manufacturing ecosystem. By combining historically distributed systems — Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Distributed Control System (DCS), Laboratory Execution System (LES), eLogs, Work Instructions, Tempo optimizes end-to-end manufacturing processes. AI is embedded in every step of the process, driving innovation from design to creation, through to simulation and execution, delivering the power of the next generation of manufacturing technology, today. To learn more about Apprentice, visit www.apprentice.io

Torch is helping Designers tap the power of 3D with augmented reality.

We are a CG animation software company. We build tech to accelerate creativity. We use our tech to make premium CG animated content.

Virtualitics, Inc. is an advanced analytics company that helps enterprises and governments make smarter business decisions, faster with ready-to-use AI that can be understood–by analysts and business leaders alike. Our AI platform allows organizations to rapidly process complex data into powerful multi-dimensional graph visualizations, and predict future business outcomes with clear, explainable no-code AI modeling. Virtualitics puts AI into use across the enterprise with enhanced analytics that’s easily integrated into the flow of work. Our patented technology is based on over 15 years of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The platform has been deployed across Department of Defense agencies, Federal Civilian agencies, and enterprise companies. Were proud to have been recently named as one of the Air Forces "big bets" on emerging technology and Built In’s top companies to work for in 2022!

Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.

Real world. Real intelligence.

World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds – both virtual and real – endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. We believe that humans are innovative, curious, and creative; science and technology are both manifestations and drivers of these impulses. Propelling AI forward with spatial intelligence will also propel forward both individuals and humanity as a whole. Toward this goal, World Labs will develop spatially intelligent LWMs that can understand and reason about the 3D world from images and other modalities. Over time, we expect to train increasingly powerful models with broader capabilities that can be applied in a variety of domains, working alongside people. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. Our team, led by co-founders Fei-Fei Li, PhD; Justin Johnson, PhD; Christoph Lassner, PhD; and Ben Mildenhall, PhD, has a strong research background, but we are not motivated by exploration for its own sake. Instead, we believe that now is a unique moment where rapid scientific progress has thinned the barrier between research and applications. We aim to seize this opportunity, focusing on the entire throughline from research to engineering to product to people. We are bringing together the most formidable slate of pixel talent ever assembled, creating a tight feedback loop between our spatially intelligent foundation models and products that will empower our users. We invite you to learn more about joining our fast-growing team.

The ultimate #GenerativeAI machine for creating high-quality, style-consistent assets. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/scenario

Mona is a creator-first world building platform powered by web3. We are the best place for architects, game developers, and artists to start building in the metaverse. Anyone can create, explore and monetize in the Monaverse - no land, no limits. Mona’s mission is to empower people around the world to create, collect, and share high quality immersive experiences on the blockchain, growing the Open Metaverse. Using Mona's World-Building Platform, you can build for free using standard 3D creation tools like Blender, Maya, 3DStudio Max, among others, mint them on the blockchain, and publish them to the web for everyone to experience. Mona is dedicated to supporting the next generation of art driven by top 3D world builders and web3 creatives. By combining innovative metaverse tooling with the latest blockchain technology, we are establishing a new paradigm for the creation and ownership of 3D NFTs. We are backed by top investors like Protocol Labs, Archetype, Collab+Currency, Placeholder VC, The VR Fund & more. Come join us on our journey to build the Open Metaverse. If you’re a builder, join our community of talented 3D world builders, architects, game developers and artists.