Latent Technology

Latent Technology is a London-based company developing real-time animation technology for virtual worlds, marketed as "Generative Physics" animation. Rather than loading characters with large libraries of hand-crafted animations, its characters are physics-based and have their movements generated by neural networks at runtime, so that motion and environment interactions emerge as a consequence of physical simulation rather than keyframes, blending or transitions. The company describes physical rigs that react to the environment and drive their own muscles, with behaviour modifiable in real time through physical parameters such as injuries, weight and stiffness, and hit reactions emerging from applied point forces. Generative Physics mode can be enabled or disabled during gameplay.

The underlying models are trained using deep reinforcement learning and generative modelling techniques. The company has stated it will release integrations with Unity and Unreal Engine, and positions the product as delivering interactive "living rigs" out of the box. Its flagship product is described in coverage of the 2025 seed round as the Latent Behaviour Engine, a tool allowing developers to create character behaviour and animation based on physics-driven generative AI; a proprietary model named Phoenix is also referenced. As of mid-2025 the Engine was in closed beta with selected studios, with two demos planned for later that year.

The company frames its mission as reinventing how virtual worlds are created and experienced, arguing that traditional animation constrains game design and that studios' typical response is to scale up team size and cost.

Founding story

Co-founders Jorge del Val (CEO) and Jack Harmer (CTO) had been working on AI research within the video game industry. Del Val has said the idea came from taking that technology and advancing animation so characters could decide their own movements and physically interact with their environment rather than being loaded with thousands of animations.

Business model

The company supplies animation technology to game developers and studios, offering access to its engine and interactive physical rigs, with stated plans for integrations into the Unity and Unreal Engine game engines. Access at the time of the sources was via a closed beta with selected studios.

Traction

As of June 2025 the Latent Behaviour Engine was in closed beta with select studios, with two demos planned for later in the year, and investor AlbionVC reported interest spanning small indie studios to top-grossing AAA studios. The company has raised $10.1M in disclosed funding across two rounds and is hiring engineers in London.

Latest developments

The most recent development in the sources is the $8M seed round announced in June 2025, co-led by AlbionVC and Spark Capital, funding development of the Latent Behaviour Engine, which was in closed beta with two demos planned for later in 2025. A company blog post on affordable next-generation interactivity was published in June 2024.