CNET

Why World Models Are AI's Next Big Thing

Katelyn is a writer 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 ...

AI video startup Runway raises $315M at $5.3B valuation, eyes more capable world models

Startup Runway has raised a $315 million round at a $5.3 billion valuation, funds it will use to expand beyond AI video ...
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).
Business Insider

Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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VentureBeat

Google’s ‘world-model’ bet: building the AI operating layer before Microsoft captures the UI

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After three hours at Google’s I/O 2025 ...
Forbes

The Next Giant Leap For AI Is Called World Models

In recent years, we’ve become used to seeing text, pictures, videos and even computer code generated by AI. But what if it could go a step further and create entire worlds? Well, for developers ...

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 ...
Gizmodo

Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models

Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into a tornado or an elephant, and odds are that it’d respond poorly if ...
Wall Street Journal

What Are ‘World Models’? The Key to the Next Big AI Leap

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 requires “world models.” The key is ...
Forbes

Why World Models Like Google’s Project Genie Work

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Google's Project Genie is an experimental model that lets you create, edit and explore ...

Autodesk invests $200M in spatial AI model creator World Labs: report

Autodesk (ADSK) has invested $200M into Worlds Labs, an artificial intelligence startup that builds spatial reasoning models, according to TechCrunch. World Labs first model, Marble, allows users to ...