Posts by Wensong Chan
Micro-World 2: Streaming Real-time Interactive World Model
- 21 October 2026
Diffusion models have advanced rapidly in recent years, enabling high-quality video generation across a wide range of creative scenarios. As visual quality continues to improve, however, the field is increasingly shifting its focus from passive content generation toward controllable and interactive experiences. YUME 1.5 [1] explores controllable video generation through explicit interaction signals, while LingBot-World [2] and Sana-WM [3] investigate world models that generate future observations conditioned on the current environment and user actions. World Labs’ Marble [27] and Atlas [28] represent a complementary spatial-modeling direction: Marble creates editable, explicit 3D worlds from multimodal inputs, while Atlas organizes text, images, camera poses, and depth into a shared spatial context for generation, reconstruction, and simulation. Together, these efforts illustrate how generative models are evolving from passive content-synthesis tools toward controllable, persistent, and interactive world simulators.
Micro-World: First AMD Open-Source World Models for Interactive Video Generation
- 05 February 2026
World models aim to simulate aspects of the real world, enabling more effective training and exploration of AI agents and ultimately paving the way toward richer forms of digital life. Games can be viewed as another form of world simulation, and their data is relatively easy to collect and annotate, making them a natural playground for building and studying world models. GameNGen [1] has demonstrated the potential of this direction, while works such as GameFactory [2], Matrix-Game [3], and Hunyuan-GameCraft [4] further showcase strong performance in game-oriented world modeling. However, these projects are either fully closed-sourced or release only partial components (typically inference-only), which limits reproducibility and community-driven progress.