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Fei-Fei Li has proposed a framework to clarify the definition of world models in AI, categorizing them into three core functions: rendering, simulation, and planning. She argues that while rendering focuses on visual fidelity and planning on action sequences, simulation is the crucial bridge connecting the two by ensuring geometric, physical, and dynamic consistency. Li also highlights a trend towards the convergence of these functions within a single model, suggesting that a unified world model could understand, imagine, reason, and interact with the physical world. AI

Researchers have developed WorldAct, a new framework designed to transform static, generated 3D environments into interactive and editable scenes. This system employs a multimodal agent to break down monolithic 3D worlds, identify key objects, and reconstruct them into aligned meshes suitable for manipulation. The framework also restores the background through 3D inpainting, enabling object-level editing, collision-aware interactions, and embodied task execution while maintaining overall scene coherence. AI