World models
World models covers interactive, action-conditioned video/3D world simulators for games, robotics and AV.
In brief
World models, in brief.
What it isWorld models covers interactive, action-conditioned video/3D world simulators for games, robotics and AV.
Where it sitsOne of 24 categories in the Models layer. Models are the trained systems that do the work: language models, and models for speech, images, video, code, translation and forecasting. This layer covers both closed models reached through an API and open models you can download.
What we track17 products, including Cosmos world foundation models, DIAMOND, Echo, GAIA-2 generative world model and Genie 3 / Project Genie.
The products
17 products in World models.
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Questions
World models, answered.
What is World models in AI infrastructure?World models covers interactive, action-conditioned video/3D world simulators for games, robotics and AV.
Which layer of AI infrastructure is World models in?World models is in the Models layer. Models are the trained systems that do the work: language models, and models for speech, images, video, code, translation and forecasting. This layer covers both closed models reached through an API and open models you can download.
Which products are in World models?We track 17 products in World models, including Cosmos world foundation models, DIAMOND, Echo, GAIA-2 generative world model, Genie 3 / Project Genie, GWM-1 (Worlds, Robotics, Avatars), Hunyuan-GameCraft and HunyuanWorld. The full list is on this page.
Models
The other categories in Models.
3D generation & motionAvatar / digital humansBackground removal & mattingBenchmarks & leaderboardsCode modelsEmbedding modelsFrontier model APIsImage generation & editingImage upscaling & restorationLip-sync & dubbingMachine translation APIsModel hubs / registriesMultilingual / regional-language modelsMultimodal / vision-language modelsMusic & audio generationOpen-weight model familiesRealtime speech-to-speech modelsReasoning modelsRerankersSmall / on-device LLMsSpeech (STT/TTS)Time-series foundation modelsVideo generation