World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world. The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs — and while both have accumulated a lot of buzz and funding, they also rank pretty low on the trying-to-make-money scale .

At their core, world models are about automating spatial intelligence , so the field could head in lots of exciting and lucrative directions, from robotics to interactive video to more complex self-driving systems.