Christian Laforte
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Christian Laforte
@chrlaf
Chief AI Scientist in a Stealth HW startup. Previously: Stability AI; AMD; Autodesk; CEO of 2 startups (3D + AI). Hanging out on bsky (chrlaf)






Today, we're announcing not one, but two of the @moonlake team on stage at AUTONOMOUS. @sharonal_lee and @sunfanyun, Co-Founders of Moonlake AI, will be on our Frontier Stage to discuss Where Robots Learn Before the Real World. 🗓️San Francisco, July 16th 📍 The Midway 🎟️ autonomousfuture.co Moonlake builds generative world models that turn a plain-language prompt into an interactive 3D environment in minutes. From text to the system compiling a training experience with physics, agents, and logic. Out of @Stanford's AI lab, and then again out of stealth in late 2025 with a flying start, with a round led by NVIDIA's NVentures & others.












Today, we released Lyra 2.0, a framework for generating persistent, explorable 3D worlds at scale, from NVIDIA Research. Generating large-scale, complex environments is difficult for AI models. Current models often “forget” what spaces look like and lose track of movement over time, causing objects to shift, blur, or appear inconsistent. This prevents them from creating the reliable 3D environments required for downstream simulations. Lyra 2.0 solves these issues by: ✅ Maintaining per-frame 3D geometry to retrieve past frames and establish spatial correspondences ✅ Using self-augmented training to correct its own temporal drifting. Lyra 2.0 turns an image into a 3D world you can walk through, look back, and drop a robot into for real-time rendering, simulation, and immersive applications. ➡️ Learn more: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/proje… 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13036





🤔Want a principled way to RL your diffusion model? Check Data-regularized Reinforcement Learning (DDRL)! Post-train @nvidia #Cosmos World Foundation models with a million GPU hours! 🤯 Novel formulation ➡️ Theoretically integrates SFT into RL ➡️ Robust to Reward Hacking 🛑 Details: research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/ddrl/ #DDRL #Diffusion #RL #NVIDIA #Cosmos