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| Event | Source | Type | Published | Summary |
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| world-models.io publishes a practical taxonomy for AI world models | world-models.io Editorial | editorial_publish | 2026-07-14T10:00:00Z | world-models. io publishes a practical taxonomy for AI world models. |
| Google DeepMind unveils Genie 3: real-time interactive world model at 1080p/24fps | Google DeepMind | model_release | 2026-04-22T14:00:00Z | DeepMind announces Genie 3, a real-time foundation world model generating interactive 3D environments at 720p and 24 fps from text prompts. |
| NVIDIA Cosmos-Predict2 released: improved physical consistency for robotics simulation | NVIDIA Research | model_release | 2026-04-18T16:00:00Z | NVIDIA Research releases Cosmos-Predict2, a second-generation diffusion world model with stronger physical consistency for robot policy pretraining. |
| Wayve publishes GAIA-2 technical report: scalable driving world model | arXiv | paper_published | 2026-04-12T09:00:00Z | Wayve releases the GAIA-2 technical report detailing a multi-camera, multi-condition driving world model trained on 4,700 hours of urban driving. |
| Meta FAIR releases V-JEPA 2 checkpoints under non-commercial license | Meta FAIR | model_release | 2026-04-08T15:00:00Z | Meta FAIR publishes V-JEPA 2 model checkpoints (ViT-L, ViT-H, ViT-g) on Hugging Face under a research-only license. |
| world-models.io launches 'Frontier World Models 2026' editorial collection | world-models.io Editorial | collection_update | 2026-04-05T10:00:00Z | A new curated collection on world-models. |
| 1X Technologies and DeepMind announce joint NEO world model for humanoid manipulation | Google DeepMind | model_release | 2026-03-28T13:00:00Z | 1X Technologies and Google DeepMind announce a joint research effort on NEO, a world model for humanoid manipulation trained on teleoperation data. Initial results show 2. |
| Google DeepMind releases Genie 2: a foundation world model for 3D environments | Google DeepMind | model_release | 2026-03-14T14:00:00Z | DeepMind announced Genie 2, a large-scale autoregressive world model capable of generating consistent, playable 3D environments from a single image prompt. |
| NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models open-sourced on Hugging Face | NVIDIA Research | model_release | 2026-03-12T16:00:00Z | NVIDIA released the Cosmos family of world foundation models under an open license. |
| New benchmark results: DreamerV3 surpasses human performance on 7 additional Atari games | Papers With Code | benchmark_update | 2026-03-11T10:00:00Z | Updated benchmark evaluations confirm DreamerV3 now achieves superhuman performance on 57 out of 57 Atari 100K games, establishing a new state-of-the-art for sample-efficient... |
| Meta FAIR publishes V-JEPA 2 paper: video prediction at scale without pixel reconstruction | arXiv | paper_published | 2026-03-10T09:00:00Z | Meta FAIR introduces V-JEPA 2, extending the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture to video. |
| Stanford publishes 'World Models for Embodied Intelligence' survey: 120+ models reviewed | arXiv | paper_published | 2026-03-08T11:00:00Z | A comprehensive survey from Stanford HAI reviews over 120 world models for embodied intelligence, categorizing approaches by architecture, modality, and application domain. |
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