Andy Halliday

Google DeepMind is another leader in this world model development that's essential to creating a more natural human-like intelligence, because we develop our intelligence by interacting with the real three-dimensional world.

OK, there may be multi-dimensional worlds beyond that, but we get to play in the three-dimensional world.

Okay.

It's their first release, and it positions the company as one of the leading world model providers, but with a focus on gaming, VR, and robotics, primarily.

Now, I want to jump over to something that also hit the news today, which is another deep topic.

world model developer, this one over in the Middle East.

Okay, now, just as context for this, I want to mention that Microsoft last year or earlier this year, I think last year, yeah, it must have been last year, they announced a major investment

providing huge funds to a number of different countries and entities in the Middle East to assist in their development.

And of course, to kind of plant a flag for Microsoft with data centers and with the use of Azure as a platform for those things.

Now, there's an organization, a group of researchers called the Institute of Foundation Models.

And they are at the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, which is over there in the Middle East.

So there's a special university funded by the incredible natural resources wealth of the and with Microsoft's assistance.

And they have their sights set on world models.

And they just released a world model called Pan.

Now, here's the interesting thing about Pan.

It's trained for generality rather than working in just narrow domains like, oh, here's a factory floor, and we're going to create a three-dimensional world that you can actually interact with, with fidelity to physics, et cetera.

It's designed to transfer its knowledge across domains by combining

language, vision, and action all together into one unified space.

And the structure of it separates reasoning from perception.

Remember, when you're working in the world of text, the model gets tokens that are just representations of our language.