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 msr research). The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.show more

1/n The benchmark results back up what we have argued from day one: LLMs are autoregressive by nature, which means they predict one token at a time, but they were never built for visual reasoning and long-horizon tasks. We tested SKY-001 against the frontier models, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, etc, in both CAD and BIM. In both cases, our model outperformed the LLMs, setting a new standard for AI efficiency.

SKY-001 is way cheaper than any frontier models by a huge margin as well. Here is the cost for CAD:

3/n While SKY-001 models are faster and cheaper than frontier models, they are much more accurate than them as well. Here is the IOU for CAD:

5/n How did we achieve this? One-shot generation from frontier models looks impressive at first. These models know what goes into a sports car for instance, and they can write CAD code that produces striking results. When you zoom in, however, the internal assemblies are often simplified, missing, or replaced with basic primitives. SKY-001 shows a different approach by planning each part before it is built. It has the ability to break down a complex physical object into smaller components through its 3D hierarchical part generation module. Additionally, its hierarchical sketch world model explains how each part is assembled by progressing through 3D intermediate states, 2D sketches, and CAD steps.

6/n What's next for SKY-001? SKY-001 is currently a Compositional Visual World Model, aka designed to provide a visual plan of an engineered object. However, the next step is to pair it with a VLA. The agent gets one component at a time plus a visual sequence to follow, enabling it to execute each step, inspect the result, and revise what fails as required. Since SKY-001 does the planning, even smaller open-source models could build complex CAD, potentially at far lower cost. But, our vision is to use SKY-001 to reinvent the physical economy beyond just CAD and BIM. The next domains could be PCB Design, Aerospace Engineering, Molecule Design, Energy and Power Grids and many more.

7/n All of this wouldn’t be possible without the immense support from our investors, advisors and supporters: @Fidelity , @sk121 (@touringcapital), @karam_n and @chrisarsenault (@inovia), @morgan_blumberg (@M13Company ), @fchollet @NaveenGRao @michaellitt @mmccauley @jennydhe, and many more.

8/n We know this will change the future of Autonomous Manufacturing, and we want to share every single detail. Check out our website and blog for the full breakdown. Blog: We invite the entire community to join the waitlist for SKY 00-1:

congrats @spisallyouneed !! model looks fucking insane...

Amazing collab with you @damianplayer

congrats on the launch that is pretty interesting! especially this data about execution cost impressive

we will going to see world models in every field in coming months and it's great to see that coming from the core of CAD and BIM tasks

Yes 100%, the upcoming demos are going to be a surprise.

Big congrats! This is huge:

Thank you so much @dr_cintas

"ai general engineer" is a crazy title

51x faster and way cheaper? This could make engineering so much more accessible.

Absolutely, and we believe this will commoditize the usage of LLMs even further

Holy shit Im already pumped for SKY-007

Man if I were on the board of OpenAI I’d be lighting up Sam’s phone right now

🤣

Let’s go team! 👏

Amazing team work @AnoushaJeetun

Being able to test designs before building them could save a lot of time. Huge congrats on the launch!

Thank you @HeyAmit_

Very exciting things happening at Skyfall! Proud to be working with many of the researchers behind this project, and excited with the other projects we're working on!

Half a cent per design is wild

The Dreams -> Reality Pipeline is getting simpler by the day

You should be able to build exactly what you dream no matter how complex the physical objects are is the ethos of @skyfallai

what was the hardest part about training this for visual reasoning

The 3D construction World Model

It's amazing that we live in a time where we can bring what we imagine into reality. And where that process just keeps getting easier with better results. Congratulations, Sam! This is an exciting launch.

Congrats! Excited for more news to come out 🚀

Appreciate your support @latifperacha

Can't wait to extend this to other domains. CAD and BIM are just the start.

Thank you @adamai_ai

The speed and cost gains over frontier models are impressive. Was the biggest lever the specialized architecture, the training approach, or something else?

Lets go! Pushing the frontier :) Just the start @skyfallai!

@skyfallai We are just getting started 🚀🚀🚀

let's go!! 🚀

Wow, something real just dropped. I am excited.

Thanks @ihteshamali 🙏🙏

This could be a huge step forward for AI in engineering.

Yes absolutely and we believe our models will generalize beyond engineering as well

From the man who manufactures rockets, electric cars, and robots, thank you.

curious what the real @elonmusk thinks about this

This is seriously impressive. Imagine going from an idea to a build ready design this fast.

Yes, we believe that this will revolutionize the entire field and enable designers and engineers to be much more creative and productive

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Glad to see the news is out - amazing progress by a world class team!

Thank you @karam_n , appreciate your support from the beginning

@andrewdsouza skyfall sells a cad world model to engineering firms that's an intro we can make

The ability to automate end to end manufacturing is what gets enabled with sky-001

World models moving into CAD and BIM is a really interesting development. Excited to see where this goes.

Really cool to see these things develop so quick

I like that this specialized world model focuses on engineering and is highly efficient. I could see this having applications in so many industries. It's fun using an LLM to build models, but I think we really need these specialized world models for this. Excited for this.

Thank you @omarsar0 , we believe that our algorithms will generalize for anything in the Design and Engineering space

im excited for world model everything

Over the next 12-18 months, every researcher will use world models for planning and LLMs for execution. No one can stop this reality.

soo much jargon, but the sound design & motion design makes it look ssooo cool. Damn

Hahah @BodgarKwizera , glad you enjoyed the video

enjoying is an understatement. i'm flabbergasted

150-210x cheaper is the part that matters most at that cost you can actually run this on real design work

AI solving real engineering problems, not just generating answers. That’s where things get interesting.