Another big step for World Model.

Tencent just released HY-World 2.0, a 3D world model that turns text, images, photos, and video into editable scenes instead of flat clips.

Most world models predict pixels, which looks fine from one view but often breaks when the camera moves or when you try to reuse the result as a real asset.

HY-World 2.0 tries to build the scene itself, recovering geometry, depth, camera pose, and renderable 3D assets, while WorldMirror 2.0 reconstructs photos or video in 1 feed-forward pass to produce a navigable digital twin.

What is happening here is that @TencentHunyuan is trying to move world models from “generate the next frame” to “build the place itself,” because HY-World 2.0 takes text, a single image, multiview images, or video and aims to output persistent 3D assets such as meshes and Gaussian splats, which are small soft 3D points that can be rendered quickly from new views.

That is a big deal because a video world model can look interactive while still being only a stream of pixels, while a real 3D asset can be re-rendered from new angles, edited later, and imported into tools like Blender, Unity, Unreal, or Isaac Sim.

HY-World does this with a staged pipeline in which HY-Pano 2.0 makes a panorama, WorldNav plans a camera path, WorldStereo 2.0 expands the world, and WorldMirror 2.0 composes the final 3D scene.