Startup Founded by Ex-Nvidia Researcher Among New World Models Endeavors

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Young startups such as Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs have raised billions of dollars in funding in the last year to develop world models. That’s the term for foundation models that approximate the physics of how objects and humans interact with their surroundings - attributes some researchers believe are key to developing working robots. Now founders are trying to tap investor interest in these models.