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

The video game business is heading toward a big change as new artificial intelligence systems learn to build interactive 3D ...

Instead of building yet another LLM, LeCun is focused on something he sees as more broadly applicable. He wants AI to learn ...

Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why ...

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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 ...

Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Labs Technologies, a company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li that’s focused on developing breakthrough artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of its first commercial world ...

Self-driving technology company Wayve has published a technical report today detailing its cutting-edge generative world model for autonomy, GAIA-1. GAIA-1 is the first generative world model designed ...

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” ...