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Peak · emerged March 2018 · high July 2026 · +35% on the month before · 73 mentions on Trending in 14 days
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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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months232 stories, +209% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months2,818 papers, +310% on the 12 months before
GitHub repositories5,455Funding rounds naming it3, $1.3B in all| Signal | Reads as | |
|---|---|---|
| Hacker News stories, last 12 months232 stories, +209% on the 12 months before | 232 stories, +209% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months2,818 papers, +310% on the 12 months before | 2,818 papers, +310% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories5,455 | 5,455 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it3, $1.3B in all | 3, $1.3B in all | Adoption |
Companies
| Name | Mentions |
|---|---|
| 4 |
Papers
GitHub projects
5,455 repositoriesNVIDIA/cosmosNVIDIA Cosmos is an open platform of world models, datasets, and tools that enables developers to build Physical AI for robots, autonomous vdeeplethe/utopiaWorld's first open-source enterprise world model.LargeWorldModel/LWMLarge World Model -- Modeling Text and Video with Millions ContextRobbyant/lingbot-worldAdvancing Open-source World Modelsdanijar/dreamerv3Mastering Diverse Domains through World Modelsknightnemo/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
| Name | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 1 year ago | Dec 30, 20241 year ago | 11,907 |
| deeplethe/utopiaWorld's first open-source enterprise world model. · Aug 7, 2026 3 months ago | Aug 7, 20263 months ago | 10,005 |
| LargeWorldModel/LWMLarge World Model -- Modeling Text and Video with Millions Context · Feb 8, 2024 2 years ago | Feb 8, 20242 years ago | 7,428 |
| Robbyant/lingbot-worldAdvancing Open-source World Models · Jan 28, 2026 9 months ago | Jan 28, 20269 months ago | 4,484 |
| danijar/dreamerv3Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models · Jan 14, 2023 3 years ago | Jan 14, 20233 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 1 year ago | Oct 31, 20251 year ago | 3,444 |
Funding
3 rounds| Name | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 20268 months ago | $1,000M | |
| Sep 13, 20242 years ago | $230M | |
| RivercellSeed · Oct 7, 2026 4 weeks ago | Oct 7, 20264 weeks ago | $25M |
Related movements
Physical AIModels that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them.Multimodal AIModels that read and write more than text: images, audio and video in the same model.Humanoid robotsGeneral-purpose robots shaped like people, now driven by learned models instead of hand-written control.
| 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
Stage changed from rising to peak
Tracking started: emerged March 2018, rising, 3 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | Stage changed from rising to peak |
| 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 Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.