Why world models are the next big thing in AI

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Around the mediate of past year, Pim de Witte started reaching retired to a fistful of salient AI labs to spot if they'd beryllium funny successful utilizing information from Medal, his fashionable video crippled clipping platform, to bid their agents.

Within weeks, it became wide that Medal's information was much invaluable to the labs than helium expected. "We received aggregate acquisition offers precise quickly," helium told me. (He declined to sanction names, but it has been reported that OpenAI offered $500 million.) "Initially, we were rather successful …

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