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Lucid (YC W25) — interactive video models

We are building universe simulations powered by interactive video models. We train video models that simulate hyper-realistic environments with immersive control, replacing hard-coded game or physics engines with dynamic neural networks.

Lucid is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: interactive video models. The founder listed is Rami Seid (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 3, 2025).

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Lucid

New accelerator entry · 2025-02-03 · the record

Winter 2025
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2025
Announced2025-02-03
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://lucid.ai
Founded2024
YC group partnerAaron Epstein

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We are building universe simulations powered by interactive video models. We train video models that simulate hyper-realistic environments with immersive control, replacing hard-coded game or physics engines with dynamic neural networks. We built the fastest action-conditioned diffusion video model (running at 20+fps on a 4090 gaming gpu) to simulate minecraft. It is 5x faster than other minecraft World Models and was trained with 100x less resources. Our unique insight was relying on aggressive compression in our tokenizer (128x versus the traditional 8x), and because attention scales quadratically with # of tokens our model can run blindingly faster. Now we’re training a hyper realistic world model!

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