Odyssey Exec: World Models Should Prioritize Pixel and Audio Coherence
nathanbenaich · x · 2026-08-03
Jeffrey Hawke from Odyssey suggests that focusing heavily on long-term coherency in world models might be the wrong research question.
He argues that the fundamental unsolved problem is achieving coherent pixel and audio streams. This is analogous to working on long context windows before settling on a proper tokenizer.
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