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A world model lets users generate, explore, and interact with fully 3‑D environments from simple prompts
  • The model takes textual or image prompts and synthesizes a navigable 3‑D scene with geometry, textures, and physics.
  • Users can walk through the scene, pick up objects, or change the environment, enabling both creative and analytical tasks.
  • Fei‑Fei Li emphasizes that this goes beyond video generation; the output is a structured world that can be queried and manipulated.
  • The capability opens doors for designers, game developers, and researchers who need rapid prototyping of immersive spaces.
  • This insight captures the core functional definition of world models as interactive, generative spatial engines.
Fei‑Fei LiLenny's Podcast00:30:45

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A world model can allow anyone to create any worlds in their mind's eye by prompting whether it's an image or a sentence and also be able to interact in this world. Fei‑Fei Li
Simple definition
It can let a robot plan its path and help tidy the kitchen, for example. Fei‑Fei Li
Robotics example

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