Move over large language models — the new frontier in AI is world models that can understand and simulate reality. Why it matters: Models that can navigate the way the world works are key to creating ...

What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows. Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 ...

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...

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 ...

People getting peeved with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) did not go unnoticed by dictionaries in 2025. A couple named their word of 2025 ‘slop’ or ‘AI slop,’ defined as low-quality ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. Fei-Fei Li, a recipient of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for ...

Yann LeCun at Viva Technology conference at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on June 14, 2023 in Paris, France. Yann LeCun is one of the giants in artificial intelligence. Known as a founding ...

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).

AI company Runway has announced what it calls its first world model, GWM-1. It’s a significant step in a new direction for a company that has made its name primarily on video generation, and it’s part ...

Over the last few months, many AI boosters have been increasingly interested in generative video models and their seeming ability to show at least limited emergent knowledge of the physical properties ...

You’ve probably seen an artificial intelligence system go off track. You ask for a video of a dog, and as the dog runs behind the love seat, its collar disappears. Then, as the camera pans back, the ...