This transition is signaled by focused efforts from several major scientists and technology entities. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has emphasized his intent to pursue world models, while Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has released its Marble model publicly. Concurrently, Google is testing its Genie models, and Nvidia is developing its Omniverse and Cosmos platforms for physical AI.

On Tuesday, news broke that he may soon be leaving Meta to pursue a startup focused on so-called world models, technology that LeCun thinks is more likely to advance the state of AI than Meta’s current language models.