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Microsoft and Databricks Expand Partnership: Full Azure Migration with Cobalt 200 ARM, Locking AI Agent Control Plane
Databricks will fully migrate to Azure, using Microsoft Cobalt 200 ARM chips for data and AI workloads, with deep integration of Genie and Unity AI Gateway into Microsoft products, locking in long-term partnership. Databricks raises $18.8B valuation.
NVIDIA Bets on World-Action Models: Control Shifts from VLM to Video Backbones
NVIDIA's blog introduces World-Action Models (WAMs) as a paradigm shift from VLM-based VLAs. WAMs leverage pretrained video/world-model backbones to jointly predict future states and robot actions, aiming to bridge the language-to-action grounding gap. This could redefine robot foundation model training but raises concerns about inference cost and latency.
Google Opens Project Genie to AI Ultra Subscribers, Exploring Interactive World Generation
Google detailed four core prompting techniques for its experimental research prototype, Project Genie. It's an AI tool that lets users create, explore, and blend interactive virtual worlds via text or image prompts. It's currently only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US.
Google Releases World Model Research Prototype Project Genie
Google introduced Project Genie, a research prototype based on world model technology that enables end-to-end simulation of environmental dynamics and physical interactions. This technology shifts from static generation to dynamic environment simulation, offering new pathways for AI agent training, educational technology, and content creation.