What best advances AI world models for complex environments?
The answers emphasize learning from real or simulated environments—whether through observation, feedback, consequence, or interaction—as key to improving AI world models.
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Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder & CTO · Runway
Learned World Models
Anastasis Germanidis says Learned World Models are the more scalable path, because the rules of the world don't have to be programmed and the model learns them from observation.
Not Boring by Packy McCormick · Not Boring by Packy McCormick · Read

Ali Ansari
Founder & CEO · Micro1
Innate Sense of Consequence
Ali Ansari points to an innate sense of consequence, saying that without it models can't fundamentally learn what they should from the consequences humans induce, while humans learn quickly from that innate feeling.
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Sam Altman
Chief Executive Officer · OpenAI
Real‑World Deployment with Feedback
Sam Altman says his approach is to put things out into the world and get feedback from real customers, seeing where they break and don't break, because that is how you make a good and safe product.
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Sara Hooker
Co-Founder · Adaption
Continuous Interaction Learning
Sara Hooker says the core need is models that interact and continuously learn from their environment, calling that efficiency of interaction and continuous learning what she thinks about a lot.
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Thomas Wolf
Co-founder - Chief Science Officer · Hugging Face
RL in Simulated Environments
Thomas Wolf points to training models in full RL environments where they explore to achieve a single goal, describing this as an increasingly large part of model training.
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