When Hongyuan Lu finished his doctorate program in AI and engineering a year ago, he reached out to some investors to see if he could raise money for a startup to build world models, AI systems that can understand and simulate the physical world. But the investors, who were focusing on AI agent ...

Over the weekend, Jasjeet Sekhon, the chief strategy officer at Google’s DeepMind AI unit, used two words to describe what needs to happen to justify his industry’s unprecedented…

Chinese AI companies launch new models, narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley. Anthropic has 93.5% YES for best AI model by August 2026, while Alibaba at 0.2% Y.