""The AI systems that are being built now need to understand how the physical world works and how things move," co-CEO and co-founder Anne-Margot Rodde told TechCrunch. "That data essentially lives in video games.""
""In simple terms, Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where world-model-focused labs such as Yann LeCun's AMI Labs or Fei-Fei Li's World Labs can buy high-quality licensed data. On the other side of the trade, video game companies can squeeze additional revenue out of the digital assets they've already created. In the middle, Origin Lab will convert the video game assets into a form that works as training data - something that could be as simple as a rendering run or as complex as automating hours of walkthrough footage.""
""It became clear that the video game industry was sitting on some incredibly valuable data, but there was no real way or infrastructure to basically connect AI labs and the video game industry," says Rodde. "So essentially, we built that bridge.""
AI systems that interact with the physical world require world models that understand how objects move and how the physical environment works. Many labs lack easy data sources for training such models and must assemble datasets. Origin Lab raises $8 million in seed funding to connect AI labs with video game companies that already hold valuable digital assets. The company acts as a marketplace where labs can buy licensed, high-quality data, while game companies gain additional revenue from existing assets. Origin Lab converts game assets into training-ready formats, ranging from rendering runs to automated generation of walkthrough footage, addressing licensing and data quality barriers.
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