Introduction The future of AI will depend on more than text. It will depend on perception. Robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, smart machines and spatial AI systems need to understand the world throu
Introduction The next generation of AI will need to understand space. Language models can process text. Vision models can recognize images. But autonomous systems require something deeper: spatial und
Introduction Artificial intelligence is becoming more powerful, but one challenge remains difficult: understanding the physical world. Text-based AI can explain physics, describe objects and answer te
Introduction Artificial intelligence is moving from language generation toward world understanding. The first major wave of AI was dominated by systems that could answer questions, summarize text, wri
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. The first major wave of generative AI was dominated by language, text, images and video. But the next wave is moving closer to the physical world: robo
World models are becoming one of the most important ideas in artificial intelligence. In a recent essay, Fei-Fei Li and the World Labs team proposed a useful way to understand this fast-growing field:
