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 ...

Venture investors poured more than $3 billion into world model startups in 2026, betting AI that can simulate the physical ...

Instead of just predicting words, world models actually learn how the physical world works, which is the "common sense" AI needs to finally reach AGI. To many people, AI manifests one of sci-fi’s ...

The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an increasing number of startups and Big Tech companies by launching its first one. Dubbed GWM-1, the model ...

In March, Google showed off its first Genie AI model. After training on thousands of hours of 2D run-and-jump video games, the model could generate halfway-passable interactive impressions of those ...

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Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

World Labs, the spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, published an essay on June 3, 2026 that tries to impose order on one of the most overloaded terms in ...

Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into a tornado or an elephant, and odds are that it’d respond poorly if ...