TechCrunch AI
14 Jul 2026
PixVerse, a startup building generative video technology, has raised $439 million in new funding. The company says it will use the capital to expand its world model product and broaden its customer reach across regions.
IEEE Spectrum
13 Jul 2026
X Square Robot outlines an open embodied-AI stack combining curated interaction data, an event-oriented world model (WALL-WM), and a pretrained action model (Wall-OSS-0.5) with a semantic action tokenizer. The company emphasizes data validity through physical replay and claims cross-embodiment transfer and deployable pretraining before fine-tuning, while noting most results come from its own robots and benchmarks.