World Model Startups Are Refusing to Say What They're Building, Even to Their Own Data Suppliers
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TechCrunch reports that founders across the world-models category, flush with capital and attention, will not describe what they are actually building, and neither will the vendors selling them training data. The opacity is category-wide rather than firm-specific. For anyone evaluating world models as a technology bet, there is currently no public basis for comparing the companies against each other.