Morning Edition · Thursday, July 9, 2026
General Intuition, Kyutai and Epic Games Open-Source a Playable Rocket League World Model
MIRA is a 5-billion-parameter latent-diffusion model that simulates full 2v2 matches at 20 frames per second on a single GPU, trained on 10,000 hours of bot self-play.
The research firm General Intuition, the French laboratory Kyutai, and Epic Games released MIRA, an open-source multiplayer world model that generates Rocket League matches frame by frame from player inputs. A 5-billion-parameter latent-dif…
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