World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."
"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."
"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."
"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."
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Amazon just wrote Anthropic a $100B check to stay on AWS for the next decade. Google has Gemini locked to TPUs. OpenAI is tied to Microsoft and Oracle.
Everyone's obsessing over which model to pick. Nobody's thinking about what happens when they have to switch. And they will, nothing in AI stays permanent for long.
That's the whole reason we're building Neuron above the model layer. The decisions live in your workspace, not the model's. When the model changes, your context doesn't go with it.