How Visko streams real-time world models on Google Cloud TPUs

Editor's note: Generative AI startups are moving rapidly beyond static clip generation to build interactive, real-time worlds. In this technical deep dive, we explore how AI startup Visko collaborated with Google Cloud TPU engineers to deploy Orbis — its continuously streaming Live World Model—on Cloud TPUs, going from initial kickoff to production handover in just 30 days. What makes a live video world model so challenging to serve in production? The bottleneck isn't average throughput — it's beating a relentless real-time clock. Unlike offline video generators where a user submits a prompt a