Models that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots. Named by David Ha and Jurgen Schmidhuber: World Models (Mar 27, 2018). Also called World model, World simulators, Interactive video models.
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Hacker News stories, last 12 months215 stories, +284% on the 12 months before
215 stories, +284% on the 12 months before
Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months2,025 papers, +255% on the 12 months before
NVIDIA/cosmosNVIDIA Cosmos is an open platform of world models, datasets, and tools that enables developers to build Physical AI for robots, autonomous v · Dec 30, 2024 1y1 year ago
Dec 30, 20241y1 year ago
11,907
deeplethe/utopiaWorld's first open-source enterprise world model. · Aug 7, 2026 7w7 weeks ago
Aug 7, 20267w7 weeks ago
10,005
LargeWorldModel/LWMLarge World Model -- Modeling Text and Video with Millions Context · Feb 8, 2024 2y2 years ago
danijar/dreamerv3Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models · Jan 14, 2023 3y3 years ago
Jan 14, 20233y3 years ago
3,823
knightnemo/Awesome-World-ModelsA Curated List of Awesome Works in World Modeling, Aiming to Serve as a One-stop Resource for Researchers, Practitioners, and Enthusiasts In · Oct 31, 2025 10mo10 months ago
Oct 31, 202510mo10 months ago
3,444
Related movements
Movement
Stage
Physical AIModels that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them.
Rising
Multimodal AIModels that read and write more than text: images, audio and video in the same model.
Peak
Humanoid robotsGeneral-purpose robots shaped like people, now driven by learned models instead of hand-written control.
Peak
History
Date
What changed
Sep 24, 2026
Tracking started: emerged March 2018, rising, 3 other names recorded
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.
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