Westlake University's Yu Kaicheng Builds a Concept World Model and Speaks for the First Time

Chinese AI Startups Turn to World Models to Reimagine Video Games

Chinese AI Startups Turn to World Models to Reimagine Video Games - Developers are betting China’s vast gaming market can serve as a proving ground for AI systems that generate dynamic, physics-based worlds, though commercialization challenges remain

Westlake University's Yu Kaicheng Builds a Concept World Model and Speaks for the First Time

When Yu Kaicheng first started talking about world models in 2023, the response he kept getting was that the field was too far away, even fantasy. Three years later, with Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun and a stream of new entrants raising billions, world models have become the physical-AI narrative of the moment. Yu, by then already a world champion on ECCV's autonomous-driving track and number one on the Fail2Drive benchmark, did the least intuitive th…