MIT Technology Review Frames 'World Models' as the Next AI Research Frontier

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MIT Technology Review's July 13 Download spotlights world models — systems that build internal, predictive representations of environments — as an emerging direction beyond today's language-first models. The framing tracks growing lab interest in models that can simulate and reason about physical dynamics for robotics, planning, and agentic tasks. For builders, it's an early signal of where frontier research investment is shifting after the current agent-tooling wave.