Happy to share we signed our first paid pilot to build an organizational world model for a manufacturing business.
It gives their team and agents a live view of what’s true, uncertain, changing, and what to do next, a belief state.
Today’s agents have memory. But once they start doing real work, they need to know what world they’re in and the current state of things.
Mental model:
memory is the rearview mirror.
belief infrastructure is the windshield.
world models need both.
PS: new website hero. wdyt?
we're hosting Momentum Demo Day in SF this summer!
25 startups. 1 stage.
watch startups pitch for funding in a room packed entirely with investors, founders in tech, and builders.
June 11, 2026. AWS Loft. San Francisco.
link in comments :)
@donalddhoffman Congrats on the early launch! I’ve been following your work and it’s influenced my thinking quite significantly around agent world models and the traces they produce.
Excited to share @thinkn_ai was selected to pitch at the @Devlabs_club Momentum demo day!
115 startups from 15+ countries competed for 5 weeks to earn demo day slots in front of a16z, Antler, Kickstart, SPC, and others.
Grateful to @BhoomiSinghani and @geeky_dan for putting the program together.
See you in SF!
SF's most ambitious Demo Day is here.
Momentum brings the best early-stage founders to San Francisco after 5 weeks of building.
for 5 weeks these builders have smashed one
checkpoint after the other proving that they have it in
them.
from getting their first customer to hitting 1k on their
tweets.
I welcome everyone to meet the Most Ambitious
Founders you've ever seen.
AWS Loft, SF.
June 11, Friday.
9:30am - 2:30pm
rsvp here: https://t.co/hfyv6UrDcL
hello .world/
give your coding agents a current world model of your repo.
your agent wakes up in a world it doesn't know.
now it does.
the environment.
current state.
open questions.
next actions.
trace.
npx dotworld init
local-first. open source.
dear @claudeai desktop team,
please remove the claude icon once the job is finished.
i keep feeling like it's stuck or frozen.
i bet i'm not the only one.
thx,
you cant receive when your fist is clenched.
when you feel desperate for the outcome,
the world closes to you.
when your energy shifts to love and hopefulness,
the world opens to you.
Not sure what belief states are?
They give agents a sufficient current state of the world so they can simulate the next best move toward a desired future state.
Memory is the rearview mirror.
Belief states are the windshield.
World models need both.
There is a lure and obssession with AI being omniscient. To be all knowing.
When in reality, this infinite library, full of the worlds truths and infinite falsehoods doesn't need to be omniscient.
What one believes to be true is their reality.
We just need to challenge our beliefs in the present.
Update them against reality.
In doing so, we constantly seek truth.
We decide what the next best action is in pursuit of the truth.
And can navigate the world confidently.
Even full of its infinite falsehoods.
@naval You can find satisfaction if your impermanent mind is permanently present.
The world shifts.
But the present is always just that, present.
That's where satisfaction is.
In the now.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.