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Jun 12, 2025

Meta launches new AI “world model” V-JEPA 2 to advance robotics, self-driving cars

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Meta launches new AI “world model” V-JEPA 2 to advance robotics, self-driving cars

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  1. Meta brings new AI “world model” to advance robotics, self-driving cars
  2. CPI, core CPI come in at 0.1% MoM, not showing strong tariff impact
  3. Disney, NBCUniversal sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
  4. OpenAI said to be in talks with PIF, Reliance, MGX on $40B deal
  5. Oracle Q4 FY25 revenue +11% YoY to $15.9B, topping estimates

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1. Meta launches new AI “world model” V-JEPA 2 to advance robotics, self-driving cars

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  • 30x faster than NVIDIA’s Cosmos model, per Meta.

  • Built on last year’s V-JEPA model, with improvements in understanding 3D surroundings and predicting the physical world.

  • Trained on 1M+ hours of video, which helped learn important patterns.

  • Reasons in a simplified “latent” space to understand how objects move, interact, and respond.

  • Reaching, picking up objects, and placing objects in new locations were among the tasks performed by robots using V-JEPA 2.

    • 100% success rate in reaching objects, while 75% in picking-and-placing, and 45% in grasping, Meta said.

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3. CPI, core CPI come in at 0.1% MoM, not showing strong tariff impact

  • CPI: 0.1% MoM / 2.4% YoY in May, vs. 0.2% / 2.5% expected, from 0.2% MoM / 2.3% YoY in Apr.

  • Core CPI: 0.1% / 2.8%, vs. 0.3% / 2.9% expected, from 0.2% / 2.8%.

4. Disney, NBCUniversal sue Midjourney over copyright infringement

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