almost 1 million hours
Worldmodeldata, which raised a GBP 7M seed in July 2026 to supply gameplay data for world models, says it has licensed almost 1 million hours of data from studios behind popular video games; it names no studio and states no price, and paying individual players is a plan, not yet an arrangement.
Dated 28 Sep 2026Source checked 20 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 21 Oct 2026Basis: reported
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“Worldmodeldata says it has licensed almost 1 million hours' worth of data from studios behind various popular video games, though Loucas declined to name them.”
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- Worldmodeldata is packaging controller inputs and other data collected by video game studios to fill the shortage of world-model training data.
- Worldmodeldata pitches itself as a broker that curates studio data so labs avoid striking individual agreements with many game studios.
- General Intuition and Niantic are already collecting video game data from their own platforms to build models.
- WIRED reports there is no corpus of training material for world model labs comparable to the text available to language models.
- Worldmodeldata's CEO believes video game data will make up the majority of world-model training material, later tuned with task-specific data.
- Nvidia's world model lead says models trained on video game inputs are unlikely to do well at fine-grained motor control such as object manipulation.
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