{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-1x-world-model-policy/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-1x-world-model-policy/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-01-12-1x-world-model-policy","date":"2026-01-12","date_precision":"day","short_title":"1X turns its video world model into a robot policy for NEO","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"1X: From Video to Action — world model self-learning","url":"https://www.1x.tech/discover/world-model-self-learning","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"1x.tech"},{"n":2,"title":"1X World Model technical report (PDF)","url":"https://www.1x.tech/1x-world-model.pdf","type":"paper","group":"primary","domain":"1x.tech"},{"n":3,"title":"TechCrunch: Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/neo-humanoid-maker-1x-releases-world-model-to-help-bots-learn-what-they-see/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"},{"n":4,"title":"The Robot Report: 1X launches world model enabling NEO to learn by watching videos","url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/1x-launches-world-model-enabling-neo-robot-to-learn-tasks-by-watching-videos/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"therobotreport.com"}],"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["1X Technologies"],"title":"1X turns its video world model into a robot policy for NEO","summary":"On 2026-01-12 1X showed the 1X World Model (1XWM) acting as NEO's policy: a 14B video model imagines the next ~5 s from a text prompt and an inverse-dynamics model turns that video into robot actions, letting the home humanoid attempt some objects and motions absent from its robot training data.","key_facts":["Backbone: 14B generative video model fine-tuned for NEO; ~11 s per rollout (multi-GPU inference with Verda)","Data: ~900 h egocentric human video + ~70 h NEO data; 400 h unfiltered robot data for the inverse-dynamics model","Grasping ~80% success; pouring 0%; best-of-8 generation lifted 'pull tissue' from 30% to 45%","Earlier 1XWM (June 2025) was used only to evaluate policies"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["world-model","humanoid","home-robot","human-video","neo"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\n1X published a world-model-based policy for its NEO home humanoid. Instead of mapping pixels directly to actions, the model generates a short future video of the task and extracts actions from it. 1X presents this as its path to reducing reliance on teleoperation.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt is one of the first deployments of a large video-generation model as a humanoid control policy, part of the 2026 shift toward learning robot skills from human video. Slow inference and weak dexterous results show the limits.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5/","date":"2026-09-17","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Figure Helix 2.5: humanoids do chores zero-shot in 30 never-seen homes","deck":null,"takeaway":"This is among the strongest public evidence that robot foundation models scale with human video, and that humanoids can generalize to unseen real homes — a core prerequisite for home robots.","category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Figure AI"]},{"id":"2026-04-30-1x-neo-factory","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-30-1x-neo-factory/","date":"2026-04-30","date_precision":"day","short_title":"1X opens Hayward NEO factory","deck":"Home humanoid production begins","takeaway":"NEO is the first humanoid sold for consumer homes at scale via preorders; whether 1X ships in 2026 is a key test of the home-humanoid market.","category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["1X Technologies"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[{"id":"1x-world-model-2025","title":"1X World Model","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/1x-world-model-2025/"}],"models":[{"id":"1x-world-model","name":"1X World Model (1XWM)","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/1x-world-model/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}