/ RESEARCH ILLUSTRATION
Words are not the world
Most AI today is trained to guess the next word. A world model is trained to guess what happens next in the real world. These are not the same thing. Scroll to see the difference, and why it is worth a billion dollars of research.
/ THE IDEA
Two kinds of guessing
Language model
Theballrollsoffthetable
Predicts the next word from patterns in text.
World model
Predicts the next state of the world, as a compressed idea rather than exact pixels.
/ THE LOOP
The loop inside a world model
This four step loop is roughly what the research toolkit (stable-worldmodel) standardizes, so different labs can be compared fairly. Watch it cycle.
CameraEncoderPredictorPlanner
A frame comes in from the world.
Then it repeats. The planner acts, the world changes, a new frame comes in, and the loop runs again.
/ TRY IT