AI systems that learn how an environment behaves so they can predict and generate what happens next, in some cases whole explorable worlds.
As with any new medium, 90% will be mediocre experimentation and 10% will be people who really master it and do something native to its strengths. The new world models will change how easy it will be to make complex sensorial artifacts: movies, games, new forms.
Ian Cheng, Ian Cheng on Composing with Systems
I think it's also interesting because it's corresponding with world models that are also coming out in terms of frontier research, AI research, like what Google is doing at Gemini with its world models.
Peter Bauman, 2025 Digital Art in Review