VAST completed nearly $200 million in A+ and A++ financing after its March 2026 Series A. The company also unveiled Project Eden, a world model approach that separates persistent state transition from generative visual rendering. The roadmap targets persistent virtual environments, multiplayer interaction, reusable scenes, AI-native sandbox creation, and embodied AI simulation, while acknowledging unresolved challenges in complex physics and autonomous state maintenance.
Daxiao Robot and CUHK MMLab introduced Kairos-Homeworld, an open project with 300,000 Chinese residential floor plans and 5,000 interactive 3D home scenes. It can generate full household environments from prompts, including layouts, furniture, objects, and physical properties. The article frames it alongside Kairos 3.0-4B as part of a broader embodied AI stack: world model, data, and environment.
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