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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by xnx on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:33PM (#46916376)
> Suddenly all this focus on world models by Deep mind starts to make sense

Google's been thinking about world models since at least 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122

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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by anp on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:18PM (#46917629)
FWIW I understood GP to mean that it suddenly makes sense to them, not that there’s been a sudden focus shift at google.
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