Will Depue: 'There Is No Such Thing as a World Model, Only Autoregressive Video Models and Mistakes'
willdepue · x · 2026-09-08
OpenAI's Will Depue posted: "there is no such thing as a world model, there are only autoregressive video models and mistakes."
The statement directly rejects the popular narrative that video generation models amount to world models, reigniting debate over whether models like Sora truly learn physics and world understanding.
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