World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

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    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/20/world-model-companies-are-keeping-a-lot-of-secrets/",
    "title": "World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets",
    "author": "Russell Brandom",
    "excerpt": "This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world. The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs - and while both have accumulated a lot of buzz and funding, they also rank pretty low on the trying-to-make-money scale . At their core, world models are about automating spatial intelligence , so the field could head in lots of exciting and lucrative directions, from robotics to interactive video to more complex self-driving systems. But when I started to press on where we would actually see the tech commercialized, things got foggy. The closest thing I found to an authority was Michael Rabbat, a co-founder of AMI Labs and the company’s VP of World Models, who joined me on the panel. But when I pressed him on exactly what the company was working on, he was cagey. “We’ll talk about it when we’re ready to talk about it.” Over email, he clarified, “We’re still in a research and building phase, so we’re not talking publicly about any product plans or timeline.” To be fair, AMI is less than a year old, so it’s fair enough to keep quiet. But this sort of caginess extends to the whole world-modeling space. World Labs’ Marble is probably the most fully developed product in the space, and its demos range from...",
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