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Today we're unveiling SKY 00-1, the first Engineering World Model towards Autonomous Manufacturing.
LLMs are great at information retrieval and code, however, the physical world involves geometric and spatial understanding. Designing complex physical objects requires long-horizon planning and latent reasoning, which LLMs weren't built for.
We stacked SKY-001 against the top frontier LLMs (GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1 etc) and we found that our model is 100x faster and 150x cheaper in CAD and BIM while having higher precision.
As a compositional visual world model, SKY-001 lets you "dream" a design before you build it. It explores many designs in parallel, breaks each one down into its smallest components, and reassembles them in 3D, ready to open in CAD tools like Autodesk Fusion.
With applications in several industries, SKY-001 is the first step to reimagining engineering firms.
👉 Join the frontier with us and visit our website for early access (link in comments).
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
What if Al could design an entire machine, down to its smallest components, at a fraction of the time and cost?
@skyfallai unveiled SKY-001, the first engineering world model, designed to tackle complex engineering tasks with remarkable speed and precision. A major step towards Al that doesn't just generate ideas, but helps turn them into reality🔥
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
AI that can actually help design and build real objects is a big deal.
@skyfallai SKY-001 can break down complex objects, figure out how the parts fit together, and turn them into designs that work in CAD.
It also claims to be much faster and cheaper than leading AI models on CAD/BIM tasks.
Exciting to see AI moving beyond chatbots and into real-world engineering and manufacturing.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Okay, this is where the world-model argument starts to make sense.
The deep learning pioneers from Maluuba are back solving one of the biggest problems in the industry. They unveiled SKY-001, the first engineering world model.
SKY-001 isn’t just generating something that looks 3D.
It simulates different designs, breaks the object down into parts and sub-assemblies, works through the hierarchy, then rebuilds it into something that can actually open in CAD.
Plus, the results compared to frontier LLMs are hard to ignore, including claims of being 150x cheaper and faster.
That feels much closer to how real engineering work happens.
With this release, they’re also building toward autonomous manufacturing and reimagining what manufacturing firms could look like.
If this approach keeps scaling beyond CAD and BIM, the interesting question won’t be “which LLM is better?”
It’ll be whether some of these long-horizon problems should be solved with a completely different kind of model.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
This dude is a math genius.
You can use the smartest systems and humans in the world and still have issues with output. You need to understand what makes a design buildable.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Great way to explore new product concepts or compare alternatives with 3D designs!
This is an engineering world model.
You give it a text prompt or an image, and it generates a 3D assembly.
Look at the examples: it breaks a design into smaller parts, creates each part in 3D, and assembles them.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Had the pleasure of embarking on the wild journey of Maluuba with @spisallyouneed building agents over 15 years ago before people were even talking about Siri or ML. Pumped about Sky 001, the team is cooking!
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Our goal is not just to build better CAD and BIM designs but for SKY-001 to become the foundation model engineering firms run their core workflows on, from product design to production.
Autonomous manufacturing needs AI systems that can reason in abstract latent space. That’s why we’re doubling down on world models and moving beyond language.
Join us in our mission to reinvent the physical economy with world models
> waitlist + blog 🔗 in comments
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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The first Engineering World Model to reimagine manufacturing firms is finally here and it already outperforms frontier LLM Models at 1/150th the cost.
🧵 Meet SKY-001. For both CAD + BIM designs it is:
‣ 51-125x faster
‣ 150-210x cheaper
‣ produces higher accuracy than all frontier models
The breakthrough here shows how efficient World Models are for complex and long-horizon tasks and it shows the industry that it’s high time to pursue a different approach than large language models to achieve optimal efficiency.
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We break down all the details in our technical blog, check it out to learn more: skyfall.ai/blog/introducing-… and don’t forget to sign up for the waitlist (skyfall.ai/sky-001)!
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The answer to every AI problem can’t be “buy more GPUs.”
Skyfall reports 51–125x faster performance and 150–210x lower cost on its engineering benchmarks with a different architecture.
Proud to be investors in @spisallyouneed and the @skyfallai team since the beginning!
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Today we're unveiling SKY 00-1, the first Engineering World Model towards Autonomous Manufacturing.
LLMs are great at information retrieval and code, however, the physical world involves geometric and spatial understanding. Designing complex physical objects requires long-horizon planning and latent reasoning, which LLMs weren't built for.
We stacked SKY-001 against the top frontier LLMs (GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1 etc) and we found that our model is 100x faster and 150x cheaper in CAD and BIM while having higher precision.
As a compositional visual world model, SKY-001 lets you "dream" a design before you build it. It explores many designs in parallel, breaks each one down into its smallest components, and reassembles them in 3D, ready to open in CAD tools like Autodesk Fusion.
With applications in several industries, SKY-001 is the first step to reimagining engineering firms.
👉 Join the frontier with us and visit our website for early access (link in comments).
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Skyfall AI @skyfallai Unveils SKY-001: A Frontier Engineering World Model.
Skyfall AI, a neolab building the first autonomous enterprise, led by Sam Pasupalak @spisallyouneed, Kaheer Suleman, and Sumit Pasupalak, has announced SKY-001, the first world model for designing complex physical products. SKY-001 helps turn an idea into a structured physical design, planning the sequence of steps needed to construct its geometry in computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) software. The model advances Skyfall’s core mission of building the first autonomous enterprise by enabling the automation of physical products.
Read More At: menlotimes.com/post/skyfall-…
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Skyfall AI retweeted
SKY-001, the first engineering world model is finally here!
- at least 50x faster than the frontier models (got-6 astra etc)
- 150x cheaper
- higher precision than all the top LLMs
Congrats to the team for the hard work! Join our waitlist to hear more 💛
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
Sam Altman watching a random unknown world model company outperform GPT-6 Astra:
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
World models are the future for the immense surface areas of the physical world. We are proud to back @spisallyouneed as he builds for the brave new industrial world. Impressive performance vs the frontier models and a lot more news to come.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
CAD DESIGN. BUT UP TO 125X FASTER 🤯
and WAY cheaper, too!
@skyfallai's new SKY-001 breaks complex objects into components, sketches each part, reconstructs everything in 3D.
18 mths in the making, built by a team from Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq'd by Microsoft Research)
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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“Sir, the founders of maluuba just dropped an engineering world model that beats gpt-6 astra on cad and bim, runs 125x faster and costs 210x less”
we’re cooked.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Skyfall AI retweeted
LLMs are terrible at building real things and everyone in AI knows it.
Ask one for a CAD model and you get a pretty 3D blob an engineer can't use.
SKY-001 just beat GPT-6 Astra on CAD and BIM:
→ 51-125x faster
→ 150-210x cheaper
→ Higher precision than every frontier model they tested
It breaks an object down to the screws, sketches every part, then rebuilds it in order so it opens straight in CAD software.
The team behind Maluuba built this. World models are coming for manufacturing next.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
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