Venture investors poured more than $3 billion into world model startups in 2026, betting AI that can simulate the physical ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

An ongoing trend in artificial intelligence could have huge implications for how the technology is used in research. Some researchers, including the computer scientist and AI pioneer Yann LeCun, who ...

World models, also known as world simulators, are being touted by some as the next big thing in AI. World models take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. Our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. Fei-Fei Li, a recipient of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the ...

Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann ...

Today’s AI is still unreliable. Some researchers think solving that problem requires teaching AI systems to understand the world around them. AI systems have already gained impressive mastery over the ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

Instead of just predicting words, world models actually learn how the physical world works, which is the "common sense" AI needs to finally reach AGI. To many people, AI manifests one of sci-fi’s ...