World Models
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Learning how reality behaves — the claimed next frontier.
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A world model predicts what happens next in an environment — physics, object permanence, cause and effect — rather than just the next word. DeepMind's Genie, NVIDIA's Cosmos and Fei-Fei Li's World Labs all bet that agents and robots must train inside learned simulators; Yann LeCun argues world models, not LLMs, are the road to real intelligence. Watch this concept to watch the post-LLM debate.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.