# World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know

- Source: Wired · AI
- Published: 2026-11-08T10:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/b2p2whnwbcz351wy3gpjphxx0
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/world-models-will-soon-be-inescapable-what-you-need-to-know/

## Summary

Niantic Spatial, Wayve, Tencent and Odyssey are building world models that use visual inputs to predict the next state of the world and simulate physics. Wayve uses dashcam footage to recreate hazardous roads for testing, and Yann LeCun's Advanced Machines Intelligence startup raised over a billion dollars. Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron says a world model takes an image and predicts the next visual state, unlike a language model that predicts the next word.