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Tech entrepreneurs seeking the next AI frontier are pivoting from chatbots to 'world models'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the ...
Tech Times

AI Inference and World Model Startups Pull $1.8B in Two Days as Foundation Models Commoditize

AI inference infrastructure investment pulled $1.8 billion in 48 hours as Baseten’s $1.5B round at a $13B valuation and ...
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. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech invest billions in developing state-of-the-art large language ...
CNET

Why World Models Are AI's Next Big Thing

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
Tech Times

Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...
NextBigFuture

AGI Needs World Models and State of World Models

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT’s path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and XAI and Anthropic are all using the LLM (Large Language Model Approach).

ACE ROBOTICS’ Kairos World Model Leads Multiple Global Embodied-Intelligence Benchmarks

SHANGHAI, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 June 2026 - ACE ROBOTICS today announced that its open-source Kairos ...
SiliconANGLE

World Labs launches Marble, a commercial world model for generating entire virtual environments

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 ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

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 ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

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 ...
InfoWorld

Why world models are AI’s next frontier

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 ...