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Sand.ai raises $100M+ for video AI, eyes world models

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Sand.ai, a video generation model and product company, has secured over $100 million in funding. The company, founded in January 2024, is focusing on autoregressive video generation and has explored audio-visual synchronization and MoE architectures. Sand.ai plans to release a new video generation model in Q3 2026 that utilizes MoE architecture, aiming for efficient inference and large parameter scale, with a commitment to open-sourcing it. Founder Cao Yue believes video is the most crucial path toward achieving world models, emphasizing the importance of raw observational data over human-defined states. AI

IMPACT This funding and focus on video generation could accelerate progress towards more capable world models and multimodal AI systems.

RANK_REASON Significant funding round for an AI company focused on video generation. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Sand.ai raises $100M+ for video AI, eyes world models

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