Visko launches Orbis live model and closes pre-seed funding round

- Visko just shipped Orbis, a "live model" that doesn't render clips — it runs worlds, streaming 4K at 24 fps for an hour straight without drift, and you can steer it mid-run like next-token prediction. Founder Will Yin (Stanford Ph.D., ex-Apple) wants it for interactive robotic training: simulate a factory arm, change the prompt, and the world updates around it instead of restarting. Hour-long egocentric video with physics baked into the memory structure — and it needs less compute? Whoa, that's mega-illegal. $10M pre-seed from Llama Ventures, a 16-person team poached from DeepMind, Tesla, and Meta, plus advisors like Michael I. Jordan. Gaps remain — finer action descriptions ("raise the arm 45 degrees"), tactile sensor data, scaling — and Yin is hunting hardware partners. Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research; Visko calls it a world model that runs in step with reality. Try it at visko.ai.