A new frontier for generative models: learning from our world
Summary
Were thrilled to announce weve closed an $18M Series A round led by EQT Ventures, with additional backing from repeat investors including GV, Air Street Capital, and others. In fact, more than 90% of our technical staff worked on advancing self-driving cars for large portions of their careers, at companies like Cruise, Wayve, Waymo, and Tesla. You can generate as much synthetic data as youd like, but it doesnt come close to the value encapsulated in the observations of millions of real-world humans interacting with one another in every scenario possible, across every city and weather condition. We knew that a single self-driving car driving down a city street at rush hour can capture hundreds of thousands of 3D details that comprise our worldmore than sufficient to power a generative model capable of building worlds. Think Google Street View for everywhere that cars dont drive.With this devicebuilt by our partners at Mosaic, an optical imaging leaderand powerful post-processing algorithms, were now able to capture the fine details that make up our world.