World Models?

World models are becoming the next real battleground in AI - not just chat, not just image generation, but systems that can simulate how environments behave, change, and respond. And the field is not converging on one idea; it is splitting into competing philosophies. LeCun / AMI Labs are betting that true intelligence will come from latent world models like JEPA, where the system predicts abstract structure instead of reconstructing every pixel, and AMI has already raised more than $1B to pursu