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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Publisher description: Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
TechCrunch | Sep 20, 2026 | Russell Brandom
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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. The closest thing I found to an authority was Michael Rabbat, a co-founder of AMI Labs and the company’s VP of World Models, who joined me on the panel. Soon, the lab would face potential competition from the other world model companies, the neolabs, and even OpenAI and Anthropic.
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