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Waypoint-1.5

Real-time generative worlds on everyday GPUs

AI World ModelProvidence, USAPre-seedFounded 2025Raised $4.5MAIWorld ModelGamingGenerative AIReal-time
Waypoint-1.5

Our Take

Waypoint-1.5 just made something that usually requires an A100 cluster actually runnable on consumer hardware — they're hitting 720p at 60fps on the GPU you probably have sitting in your desk setup. That's either a massive democratization or a massive compromise on quality, and the honest answer is probably somewhere in between. Either way, the fact that someone is trying to bring world models down to everyday hardware is a signal worth tracking in 2025.

Key Facts

Category
AI World Model
Location
Providence, USA
Founded
2025
Stage
Pre-seed
Raised
$4.5M
Discovered via
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The people behind Waypoint-1.5

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Louis Castricato

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CEO & Co-founder

Previously led CarperAI and was Head of LLMs at Stability AI. Extensive experience in large-scale open science.

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Shahbuland Matiana

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Chief Science Officer & Co-founder

Previously co-founded CarperAI with Castricato, worked on representation learning and RLHF at Stability AI focusing on alignment for text-to-image models.

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