TechCrunch

What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

World models, also known as world simulators, are being touted by some as the next big thing in AI. World models take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. Our ...
CNET

How Smart Do We Want AI to Be? World Models May Understand Things Better Than We Do

Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world.
Live Science

Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...
Homeland Security Today

PERSPECTIVE: The Vast World Beyond Large Language Models

“I’m not so interested in LLMs anymore,” declared Dr. Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and then proceeded to upend everything we think we know about AI. No one can escape the hype around large ...
Business Insider

Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Lakshmi Varanasi Every time Lakshmi publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your ...
Forbes

How World Models Are Radically Reshaping The Future Of Generative AI And LLMs

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I identify how the use of world models is ...
Quanta Magazine

‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...
VentureBeat

1X's generative model first to predict real-world robot interactions

Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog ...
TechCrunch

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is now available via freemium and paid tiers that let users turn text prompts, ...
Ars Technica

Can today’s AI video models accurately model how the real world works?

Over the last few months, many AI boosters have been increasingly interested in generative video models and their seeming ability to show at least limited emergent knowledge of the physical properties ...
The Verge

Why world models are the next big thing in AI

A new startup called General Intuition is part of a growing wave of companies trying to make AI agents that can interact with the real world. A new startup called General Intuition is part of a ...