Overworld founder Louis Castricato pivots from LLM research to build AI world models that run at 60 FPS on consumer hardware, raising $4.5M in pre-seed

AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind popular chatbots.

AI is evolving beyond text-based chatbots, with researchers now focusing on "world models." These advanced systems aim to teach AI to understand and interact with the physical…