Ankit Gupta

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · World Models, Explained · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's like this concept of a world model of, you know,

implicitly predicting future states and actions feels intuitively like what our brains are doing.

And it seems like there's some, you know, neuroscience evidence.

You're like collecting a whole bunch of these experienced rollouts and then you're updating your, your policy function.

So where does that put us now?

We have all this work happening with world models.

How should we think about what's coming ahead in these next few years in the research community?

Yeah.

I mean, what's pretty cool is we see a lot of companies at YC working at every step of this, from the collecting egocentric data, collecting the teleop data, training their own world models and action models, building new embodiments, and then making ways of adapting those embodiments.

And it feels like this is the first year where you see demos where you're like, OK, this actually, like, kind of is starting to look like it's going somewhere.

Yeah.

And it seems like a very exciting year.

Well, there's a lot of more research to do then.

Yeah, yeah.

Francois, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks so much for watching, everyone.

We'll be back for the next episode of Decoded.

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