Jeff Hawke

Jeff Hawke (Odyssey): World Models for Gaming, Physics & Robotics

Jeff Hawke, CTO of Odyssey, describes world models as a new category of foundation model that models how the world evolves, producing an interactive stream of pixels rather than text. He traces the field's roots in autonomous driving research, notes stable generations have gone from around 10 seconds to multiple minutes, and expects gaming to be the first mass-market application within about 12 months. He also covers world models as future physics simulators, their role in giving robots the equivalent of 16-18 years of world experience, behavior-simulation use cases like staff training, and his view that world models will form a new company category parallel to OpenAI and Anthropic.

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