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World Models

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POD20VCAUG 1, 2026
20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile
HARRY STEBBINGS, JUN SUNG PARK
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PODTRAINING DATAJUL 29, 2026
Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil
JERRY TWOREK, PAT GRADY, ROHAN ANIL, SONYA HUANG
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 29, 2026
ContactFlow: A video action conditioning that transfers across embodiments
SAMI AZIRAR, HERMANN BLUM, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
04
PODTHE A16Z SHOWJUL 28, 2026
Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence and Robotics
FEI-FEI LI, MARTIN CASADO, YUNZHU LI
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
NEOTEAI TEAM, FUDAN TEAI TEAM
06
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录JUL 22, 2026
147. 和蚂蚁灵波沈宇军聊:机器人原生基础模型、大脑和本体的关系、预训练与数据scale up、老师汤晓鸥
张小珺, 沈宇军
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 21, 2026
Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling
HADI ALZAYER, JIA-BIN HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
08
PODLIGHTCONEJUL 17, 2026
World Models, Explained
ANKIT GUPTA, FRANCOIS CHAUBARD
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POD晚点聊 LATETALKJUL 14, 2026
172: Momenta IPO后再访曹旭东:就是想做没有尽头的AI
MANCHI, 晚点团队
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NEWSTHE AI CORNERJUL 13, 2026
Demis Hassabis Says AGI Arrives in 2 to 5 Years. Here Is the Full Picture
THE AI CORNER
11
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 12, 2026
VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment
GUOYANG XIA, YAN XIE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 7, 2026
RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation
HAOYU ZHAO, ZHONGYU LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 5, 2026
In-Context World Modeling for Robotic Control
SIYIN WANG, XIPENG QIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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NEWSPOSTROUNDJUL 2, 2026
Series B activity: June 2026
POSTROUND
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POD晚点聊 LATETALKJUN 27, 2026
170: 【具身季报 26Q2】世界模型大风不停,和不想被贴标签的人
MANCHI, 晚点团队
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NEWSAXIOS PRO RATAJUN 26, 2026
Axios Pro Rata: Remembering Om
DAN PRIMACK
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PODTHE A16Z SHOWJUN 26, 2026
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil
KEVIN WEIL, SPEAKER_01, SPEAKER_02
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 26, 2026
SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation
NADUN RANAWAKA, YUKE ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 22, 2026
SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors
PRATYAKSH RAO, GIUSEPPE LOIANNO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PODDWARKESHJUN 19, 2026
The data black hole at the center of AI
DWARKESH PATEL
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 15, 2026
Kairos: A Native World Model Stack for Physical AI
KAIROS TEAM, XIAOGANG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PODNO PRIORSJUN 10, 2026
Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives
ALEX RIVES, BIOHUB TEAM, ELAD GIL, MARK ZUCKERBERG, PRISCILLA CHAN, SARAH GUO
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 8, 2026
MotionWAM: Towards Foundation World Action Models for Real-Time Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
JIA ZHENG, JUNWEI LIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PODTHE MIKE VESTIL SHOWJUN 4, 2026
Raj Patel — Inside Human Archive (humanarchive.ai)
RAJ PATEL (HUMAN ARCHIVE FOUNDER), MIKE VESTIL
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
NVIDIA, ZIAN WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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NEWSAXIOS AI+JUN 1, 2026
🌎 Nvidia's world move
AXIOS AI+
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NEWSAXIOS AI+MAY 26, 2026
🚨 Hassabis sounds alarm
AXIOS AI+
28
POD晚点聊 LATETALKMAY 18, 2026
165: 英伟达 GEAR 高深远:世界模型、自进化循环、DreamDojo
MANCHI, 晚点团队
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PODDWARKESHMAY 15, 2026
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
DWARKESH PATEL, ERIC JANG
30
PODLIGHTCONEMAY 1, 2026
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
ANKIT GUPTA, FRANCOIS CHAUBARD
31
PODSEQUOIA AI ASCENTAPR 30, 2026
Jim Fan — VLAs Are Dead, WAMs Are Next
JIM FAN (NVIDIA GEAR), HOST (SEQUOIA)
32
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
MOTUBRAIN TEAM, JUN ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
33
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects
TIM MISSAL, PAULA DORNHOFER PARO COSTA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 29, 2026
Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising
JUN GUO, HUAPING LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
35
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 24, 2026
dWorldEval: Scalable Robotic Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model
YAXUAN LI, YICHEN ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 22, 2026
Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
ADRIANA AIDA, PAVAN UPPUTURI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
37
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 13, 2026
Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZHILONG ZHANG, YANG YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
38
POD20VCAPR 7, 2026
20VC: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution | Why LLMs Will Not Commoditise & We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws | Bottlenecks in AI & The Energy Crisis Caused By AI | Whether AI Will Do More to Harm or Help Inequality
DEMIS HASSABIS, HARRY STEBBINGS
39
PODLONG STRANGE TRIP W BRIAN HALLIGANAPR 2, 2026
Jack Dorsey: Every Company Can Now Be a Mini-AGI
BRIAN HALLIGAN
40
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 2, 2026
ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
ZHUOYANG ZHANG, SONG HAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
41
POD晚点聊 LATETALKAPR 2, 2026
157: 具身季报26Q1:人形再思考、英伟达世界模型、高自由度灵巧手
MANCHI, 晚点团队
42
PODINVEST LIKE THE BESTMAR 31, 2026
Sergey Levine - Building LLMs for the Physical World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.465]
PATRICK O'SHAUGHNESSY, SERGEY LEVINE, SHOW DISCLAIMER
43
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 31, 2026
DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA
YI CHEN, XIHUI LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
44
NEWSJACK CLARK FROM IMPORT AIMAR 30, 2026
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
JACK CLARK FROM IMPORT AI
45
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies
QIAN LONG, XINGHANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
46
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 28, 2026
VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
YANJIANG GUO, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
47
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 27, 2026
Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining
WENYAO ZHANG, LI ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
48
NEWSAXIOS AI+MAR 25, 2026
👋 Sora sunsets
AXIOS AI+
49
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 22, 2026
DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
SHENYUAN GAO, LINXIJIMFAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
50
PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 19, 2026
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
AIDEN SWANN, MAC SCHWAGER, ET AL. (MIT)
51
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 19, 2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
YUHANG ZHENG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
52
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录MAR 16, 2026
133. 对谢赛宁的7小时马拉松访谈:世界模型、逃出硅谷、AMI Labs、两次拒绝Ilya、杨立昆、李飞飞和42
ZHANG XIAOJUN, 张小珺
53
PODA16Z PODCASTDEC 8, 2025
Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao
54
PODBLOOMBERG LIVEDEC 1, 2025
Fei-Fei Li (World Labs) — On Creating Large World Models
FEI-FEI LI (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER/CEO), BLOOMBERG LIVE HOST
55
PODLEX FRIDMANNOV 30, 2025
Michael Levin: Reality is an Illusion - Alien Intelligence, Biology, Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486
LEX FRIDMAN, MICHAEL LEVIN
56
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录 (ZHANG XIAOJUN BUSINESS INTERVIEWS)NOV 28, 2025
Interview with DeepMind's Jie Tan: Robotics, Cross-Embodiment, World Models, Gemini Robotics 1.5, and Google
JIE TAN, ZHANG XIAOJUN
57
PODLATENT SPACENOV 25, 2025
Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson (World Labs) — After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models
FEI-FEI LI (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER/CEO), JUSTIN JOHNSON (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER), LATENT SPACE HOSTS
58
PODLENNY'SNOV 16, 2025
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
LENNY (HOST), DR. FEI-FEI LI
59
PODTRAINING DATANOV 7, 2025
OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models
ROHAN SAHAI, THOMAS DIMSON, BILL, THOMAS DIMSON
60
PODONE-OFF EPISODESOCT 21, 2025
#38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World
UNKNOWN HOST, KEVIN BLACK, CARL HAUSMAN
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PODONE-OFF EPISODESJUN 7, 2025
【BAAI2025】 Building Physical Intelligence | Karol Hausman
KAROL HAUSMAN
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PODONE-OFF EPISODESAPR 26, 2025
The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
HOST, KAROL HAUSMAN, LACHY GROOM
World Models: Podcast & Newsletter Summaries | Teahose