Nov 2, 2026

AMD Micro-World 2: no game engine made this. An AI is drawing it live.

AMD's Micro-World 2 is an open world model: press a key and it imagines the next frames. AMD says it runs above 30 frames per second on one GPU.

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What it is

Micro-World 2 is a world model from AMD. You steer with a keyboard and mouse, and instead of a game engine drawing the scene, the AI predicts the next frames from what came before and what you pressed. AMD says it can keep streaming for up to one minute.

How fast, per AMD

On a single AMD Instinct MI350X chip, AMD measured 32.12 frames per second, or 42.49 with an optional lighter decoder that gives up a little picture quality. Those tests ran at 352 by 640 pixels, well below HD.

How it was made

It's built on Wan2.2, an open video model with 5 billion parameters. To teach it controls, AMD recorded 440 clips in Capsaicin, its own open-source 3D rendering tool, logging the exact key and mouse input for every frame. Training took about four days on eight MI350X chips.

Why it matters

World models like this could become practice spaces for games and robots. Here, everything is open: AMD released the model weights, the code and the dataset, so anyone can study or build on it.

Footage in the video

All clips are from AMD's Micro-World 2 blog post. Links are below.