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The timeline tracks published world model papers, product releases, benchmark updates, and lab announcements in chronological order.

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EventSourceTypePublishedSummary
world-models.io publishes a practical taxonomy for AI world modelsworld-models.io Editorialeditorial_publish2026-07-14T10:00:00Zworld-models. io publishes a practical taxonomy for AI world models.
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 3: real-time interactive world model at 1080p/24fpsGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-04-22T14:00:00ZDeepMind 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 simulationNVIDIA Researchmodel_release2026-04-18T16:00:00ZNVIDIA 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 modelarXivpaper_published2026-04-12T09:00:00ZWayve 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 licenseMeta FAIRmodel_release2026-04-08T15:00:00ZMeta 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 collectionworld-models.io Editorialcollection_update2026-04-05T10:00:00ZA new curated collection on world-models.
1X Technologies and DeepMind announce joint NEO world model for humanoid manipulationGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-03-28T13:00:00Z1X 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 environmentsGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-03-14T14:00:00ZDeepMind 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 FaceNVIDIA Researchmodel_release2026-03-12T16:00:00ZNVIDIA released the Cosmos family of world foundation models under an open license.
New benchmark results: DreamerV3 surpasses human performance on 7 additional Atari gamesPapers With Codebenchmark_update2026-03-11T10:00:00ZUpdated 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 reconstructionarXivpaper_published2026-03-10T09:00:00ZMeta FAIR introduces V-JEPA 2, extending the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture to video.
Stanford publishes 'World Models for Embodied Intelligence' survey: 120+ models reviewedarXivpaper_published2026-03-08T11:00:00ZA comprehensive survey from Stanford HAI reviews over 120 world models for embodied intelligence, categorizing approaches by architecture, modality, and application domain.

Timeline Event Directory

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EventSourceTypePublishedRelated Models
world-models.io publishes a practical taxonomy for AI world modelsworld-models.io Editorialeditorial_publish2026-07-14T10:00:00Z0
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 3: real-time interactive world model at 1080p/24fpsGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-04-22T14:00:00Z1
NVIDIA Cosmos-Predict2 released: improved physical consistency for robotics simulationNVIDIA Researchmodel_release2026-04-18T16:00:00Z1
Wayve publishes GAIA-2 technical report: scalable driving world modelarXivpaper_published2026-04-12T09:00:00Z0
Meta FAIR releases V-JEPA 2 checkpoints under non-commercial licenseMeta FAIRmodel_release2026-04-08T15:00:00Z1
world-models.io launches 'Frontier World Models 2026' editorial collectionworld-models.io Editorialcollection_update2026-04-05T10:00:00Z0
1X Technologies and DeepMind announce joint NEO world model for humanoid manipulationGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-03-28T13:00:00Z0
Google DeepMind releases Genie 2: a foundation world model for 3D environmentsGoogle DeepMindmodel_release2026-03-14T14:00:00Z1
NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models open-sourced on Hugging FaceNVIDIA Researchmodel_release2026-03-12T16:00:00Z1
New benchmark results: DreamerV3 surpasses human performance on 7 additional Atari gamesPapers With Codebenchmark_update2026-03-11T10:00:00Z1
Meta FAIR publishes V-JEPA 2 paper: video prediction at scale without pixel reconstructionarXivpaper_published2026-03-10T09:00:00Z1
Stanford publishes 'World Models for Embodied Intelligence' survey: 120+ models reviewedarXivpaper_published2026-03-08T11:00:00Z0
world-models.io adds interactive Model Comparator and Performance Index methodology pageworld-models.io Editorialeditorial_publish2026-03-06T15:00:00Z0
UC Berkeley releases UniPi: Universal World Model for Robot Policy LearningUC Berkeleymodel_release2026-03-04T13:00:00Z1
Leaderboard update: Performance Index recalculated with March 2026 benchmark dataworld-models.io Editorialleaderboard_update2026-03-02T10:00:00Z2
New collection: 'World Models for Autonomous Driving' curated with 12 key modelsworld-models.io Editorialcollection_update2026-02-28T14:00:00Z0
Toyota Research publishes DiffuseBot: diffusion-based world model for soft robot designarXivpaper_published2026-02-25T09:30:00Z0

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