Decart and Etched release Oasis, a real-time AI-generated Minecraft-like world model

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/decart-etched-oasis

Oasis at 20 fps and 460p on H100s; 500M open weights described as scaled down; autoencoder with DiT layers, next-frame prediction; only a few minutes of play at a time; placing a dirt block can bring up an entirely new environment.

Diffusion and autoregressive neural game engines