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Imagine a world where digital characters move and act just like real people. Meta’s new AI model, called Meta Motivo, aims to make that happen. It’s designed to give virtual agents more natural movements and responses, allowing them to fit smoothly into Metaverse experiences. With Meta Motivo, digital characters feel more alive, making virtual worlds richer, more inviting, and a lot more fun.
The main idea behind the Meta AI Model is to help virtual characters feel more genuine. In the past, making AI characters move or behave naturally often required lots of careful planning and fine-tuning. Meta Motivo changes that.
It learns on its own how to carry out a wide range of tasks—like walking, standing, or responding to a sudden change—without constant human input. As a result, these digital figures look and feel more like real people.
Full-Body Control Made Simple
One of Meta Motivo’s greatest strengths is its ability to control an entire digital body. It can track motion, achieve certain poses, and find its way around different places, all with minimal extra training.
Because it understands how bodies are supposed to move, it can jump into new situations and still behave naturally. This realistic movement makes it easier for us to connect with these virtual characters, almost as if they were right there with us.
Meta put the model to the test using datasets from all kinds of scenarios and languages. They also let human reviewers judge how well it performed. The results were impressive. Compared to other AI models, Meta Motivo handled a broad variety of tasks smoothly and didn’t need special instructions or massive rewrites of its code. This kind of testing shows that the Meta AI Model is ready to bring its realistic behaviors to the real world.
While Meta Motivo focuses on making characters feel more human, Meta is also working on tools to keep online content trustworthy. One such tool is Meta Video Seal, which helps confirm the origin of a video.
It does this by placing hidden marks in the video, acting like a signature that proves where it came from. By doing this, Meta aims to reduce misinformation and help people trust what they watch and share online.
Learning Without Labels
An important part of Meta Motivo’s learning process is something called unsupervised reinforcement learning. Instead of relying on carefully labeled examples, the model learns from raw data—like recordings of movement—and figures out what to do on its own.
By storing all this information in a shared space and understanding the rewards for certain actions, the model quickly picks up a wide range of skills. Whether it’s handling whole-body tasks or adjusting to sudden changes in its virtual world (like a gust of wind), Meta Motivo becomes more flexible and realistic simply by learning as it goes.
Editor’s note: Written with the assistance of AI – Edited and fact-checked by Jason Newey.
