World models are the building blocks to the next era of physical AI -- and a future in which AI is more firmly rooted in our reality.

Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world.

Famed San Francisco-based startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator says that one AI model provider has overtaken OpenAI in popularity among the accelerator’s latest batch of startups, ...