World models are the building blocks to the next era of physical AI -- and a future in which AI is more firmly rooted in our reality.

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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 ...

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

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Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann ...

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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 ...