Technology Trends
Technology Trends in World Models
A 'World Model' learns the dynamics of an environment and simulates the future inside its own head. From Ha & Schmidhuber's VAE+RNN, through DreamerV3, Genie 3, and Sora, to the JEPA architecture championed by Yann LeCun — this piece maps the split between generative and non-generative approaches, and the shared wall of physical consistency both sides run into.