In Episode 3 of The World Model Podcast, we move from theory to reality. World models aren’t just research experiments anymore they’re already reshaping entire industries, and in the next two years their impact will be impossible to ignore.

We start in an unexpected place: video games. From NPCs that dynamically predict your next move to studios that can run millions of simulated playthroughs overnight, world models are set to overhaul both gameplay and the development process itself.

Then we zoom out to one of the most high-stakes applications: autonomous vehicles. Self-driving systems are shifting from simple reaction to rich prediction, running countless “what if” simulations in real time to anticipate pedestrians, weather changes, and the behaviour of other drivers.

But the revolution doesn’t stop there. In drug dis ...