Decart Launches Oasis 3, a Photorealistic World Model for Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
AI startup Decart unveiled Oasis 3, an interactive world model that generates photorealistic driving environments in real time and is available via API at $0.02 per second. The model targets autonomous vehicle companies needing to simulate rare driving scenarios, and Decart is building a developer ecosystem around it following a $300 million funding round that valued the company at nearly $4 billion. The technology represents a significant step in physical AI applications, though testing reveals limitations in long-term scene coherence and object awareness.
Decart, a two-year-old AI startup, released Oasis 3, an interactive world model designed to generate photorealistic driving environments that users can interact with in real time. The model is built on Decart's foundation video model Lucy and leverages the company's proprietary DOS (Decart Optimization Stack) software to run efficiently on major cloud hardware providers, making it significantly cheaper to operate than competitors. Decart is initially targeting autonomous vehicle companies that need to simulate rare driving scenarios at scale, but plans to expand into robotics and other physical AI applications. The company recently raised $300 million from strategic investors including Toyota, Adobe, eBay, and Nvidia, bringing its valuation to nearly $4 billion. By offering API access from day one, Decart aims to build a developer ecosystem similar to OpenAI's approach with language models, leveraging its existing community of over 100,000 developers. However, testing revealed that while Oasis 3 produces highly photorealistic initial scenes from text prompts, the model degrades significantly over extended interactions and currently lacks object awareness.
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The sources do not provide information about Oasis 3's specific technical limitations regarding object awareness, the timeline for addressing these limitations, or comparative performance metrics against competitors like Google's Genie 3 and World Labs's Marble beyond subjective visual quality assessments.
What different sources said
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
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