# Bad Influence story: World Models: AI Systems That Predict Visual States and Physics

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 05:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/7295944a-d6a1-4808-9c23-175ed818e8f1

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Latest update (11-08 05:00): World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know

Overview: Wired reports that world models, AI systems that predict the next visual state of the world and simulate physics, are being built by Niantic Spatial, Wayve, Tencent and Odyssey. Wayve uses dashcam footage to recreate hazardous roads for testing. Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron says a world model takes an image and predicts the next visual state, unlike a language model, which predicts the next word.

Yann LeCun's startup, Advanced Machines Intelligence, raised over a billion dollars, according to the report. The report's headline says world models will soon be inescapable, but the article itself gives no adoption figures to support that claim.

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1. 11-08 05:00 · Wired · AI · [World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know](https://badinfluence.news/items/b2p2whnwbcz351wy3gpjphxx0)
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