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 ...

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World models — neural networks designed to understand and simulate the dynamics of the real world, including physical properties and spatial relationships — are emerging as the next strategic frontier ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I identify how the use of world models is ...

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,” ...

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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 ...

A new startup called General Intuition is part of a growing wave of companies trying to make AI agents that can interact with the real world. A new startup called General Intuition is part of a ...

Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...