# MBZUAI's IFM releases PAN 2, an open 29B world model for physical AI

> Original title: MBZUAI’s IFM Releases PAN 2, an Open 29B World Model for Physical AI

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-11-11T07:38:57.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/a3rbav068olvlp67e48ndk7e3
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/10/ifm-pan-2-open-world-model/

## Summary

The Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI released PAN 2, an open world model that simulates a scene's video outcome from a text action. Weights, training code and inference code ship under Apache 2.0. In IFM's self-reported tests, PAN 2 leads six tested models on 100 multi-step plans at 34.0% full-plan completion, while MiniMax-H3 wins on single actions and human preference.

## Why it matters

The article details the planner and video-model split, the ablation showing the LLM planner's role, and the self-reported benchmark gaps against MiniMax-H3.