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14 tracked signals on world-models.

From VLM/VLA's to Embodied Agents — Armen Aghajanyan, Perceptron AI

AI Engineer · Sep 23, 2026

Perceptron AI wants to unify VLMs, VLAs, and world models into 'embodied foundational models' for real-time physical-world interaction.

“we want to move away from the distinction between VLM, VLA, world models, whatever you want to call it, to what we call embodied fundamental models”
The Key Thing Human Brains Have That AI Is Trying To Learn

Y Combinator · Jul 17, 2026

World models are the most promising path to closing AI's sample efficiency gap with humans.

“the two major problems that we have left to solve is intelligence per watt and intelligence per sample.”