Companies compete not on who owns the hardware, but on how well their models reflect reality. For the past two years, artificial intelligence has felt oddly flat.

Agentic world models are aiding the advancement of AI in mental health. Embodiment and psychological grounding come to the fore. An AI Insider scoop.

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

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In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, Google’s advancements in the field of robotics stand out as remarkably innovative. Central to their latest breakthrough is the concept of World Models for ...

Runway develops world models, algorithms that generate three-dimensional virtual environments based on user prompts. The company’s models are used by Shutterstock Inc., Robinhood Markets Inc. and ...

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).

If you follow the AI world on X, you’ve probably seen in recent weeks clips of video game-like worlds where users are playing as a dog on a sunny beach, a vial of poison in the play Hamlet or a pack ...

Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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