UK startup Worldmodeldata trains AI on video game player data

Worldmodeldata, a British startup advised by Yann LeCun, has licensed nearly 1 million hours of video game data — player actions in 3D worlds — to train world models. The company plans to eventually compensate individual players for their data.

• Worldmodeldata licensed about 1 million hours of data from game studios
• The startup is advised by Yann LeCun and backed by world-model researchers
• Nvidia doubts game physics is detailed enough for fine manipulation tasks
• The company aims to pay individual players for their gameplay data