CNET

2026 Will Be the Year of World Models. Here's Why They Matter More Than LLMs

World models are the building blocks to the next era of physical AI -- and a future in which AI is more firmly rooted in our reality.
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...

DeepSeek’s New Architecture Can Make AI Model Training More Efficient and Reliable

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, that took the Silicon Valley by storm in November 2024 with its ...
CNET

I Tried Vibe Coding With Different Gemini Models. Here's What I Learned

A slower "reasoning" model might do more of the work for you -- and keep vibe coding from becoming a chore.
Quanta Magazine

‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...
MIT Technology Review

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models. Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri ...