Westlake University launches World Model Research Center led by Yu Kaicheng
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Westlake University launched its Westlake World Model Research Center at its Yungu Campus in Hangzhou on October 31, according to the university.
Yu Kaicheng, an assistant professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Engineering, directs the center, and Jin Yaochu is chief scientist. The center is an interdisciplinary research platform focused on physical intelligence, studying world models that combine perception, cognition, prediction and action. It aims to build a general world model that understands physics and learns from real-world feedback. The university has not yet named the other principal investigators or announced the center's first projects.
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AIWestlake University launched its Westlake World Model Research Center in Hangzhou on October 31, according to the university, with Yu Kaicheng directing it and Jin Yaochu as chief scientist. The center will study world models that combine perception, cognition, prediction and action, aiming to build a general world model that understands physics and learns from real-world feedback. The university has not yet named the other principal investigators or announced the center's first projects.
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