[
  {
    "id": "world-models-2018-release",
    "project_id": "world-models-2018",
    "date": "2018",
    "event": "The World Models project published its latent-model-and-controller approach.",
    "sources": [
      "https://worldmodels.github.io/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "sora-world-simulators-2024-note",
    "project_id": "sora-world-simulators",
    "date": "2024",
    "event": "OpenAI published Video Generation Models as World Simulators.",
    "sources": [
      "https://openai.com/index/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "copilot4d-2024-iclr",
    "project_id": "copilot4d",
    "date": "2024",
    "event": "Copilot4D was presented as an ICLR 2024 world model for lidar forecasting.",
    "sources": [
      "https://waabi.ai/research/copilot-4d"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-27"
  },
  {
    "id": "genie-3-2025-release",
    "project_id": "genie-3",
    "date": "2025",
    "event": "Google DeepMind introduced Genie 3 as a general-purpose world model for real-time navigable generated worlds.",
    "sources": [
      "https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "vjepa-2-ac-2025-paper",
    "project_id": "vjepa-2-ac",
    "date": "2025",
    "event": "The V-JEPA 2 v1 paper described V-JEPA 2-AC as a separately action-conditioned robot-planning route.",
    "sources": [
      "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09985v1",
      "https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-12"
  },
  {
    "id": "marble-2025-release",
    "project_id": "marble",
    "date": "2025-11-12",
    "event": "World Labs announced Marble for creating, editing, expanding, combining, and exporting 3D worlds.",
    "sources": [
      "https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-28"
  },
  {
    "id": "gwm-1-2025-release",
    "project_id": "gwm-1",
    "date": "2025-12-11",
    "event": "Runway announced GWM-1 as three separately post-trained world-model variants.",
    "sources": [
      "https://runway.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-27"
  },
  {
    "id": "waymo-world-model-2026-release",
    "project_id": "waymo-world-model",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "event": "Waymo introduced a Genie 3-derived driving world model that emits camera and lidar simulation.",
    "sources": [
      "https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-07-27"
  },
  {
    "id": "cosmos-3-2026-release",
    "project_id": "cosmos-3",
    "date": "2026-06-01",
    "event": "NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3 as an open-weight physical-AI model.",
    "sources": [
      "https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/NVIDIA-Launches-Cosmos-3-the-Open-Frontier-Foundation-Model-for-Physical-AI/default.aspx",
      "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02800v4"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-08-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "gaia-4-2026-release",
    "project_id": "gaia-4",
    "date": "2026-08-03",
    "event": "Wayve introduced GAIA-4 as the world model at the core of its closed-loop Simulation 2.0 system.",
    "sources": [
      "https://wayve.ai/thinking/gaia-4/"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-08-05"
  }
]