a16z(@a16z):World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words." "Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate." "Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics." "Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it." Full piece:

2026.06.03 20:12

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words." "Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate." "Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics." "Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it." Full piece: