Cohere Labs Opens 'World Models from Scratch' Series with Certificate
Cohere_Labs · x · 2026-09-17
Cohere Labs Open Science Community launched "World Models from Scratch," a hands-on technical series led by Nahid Alam, co-lead of its Embodied AI group, who is writing an open book on the topic. The bi-weekly series (10 chapters) builds world models from first principles with runnable code, diagrams, and interactive tools.
Key points:
- Covers architecture, training optimization, adaptation, computational efficiency, and distillation
- Session 2 on Sept 17, 9AM PST dissects an existing world model architecture and evaluates it with benchmarks
- Certificate from Cohere Labs for ≥75% attendance; GitBook published openly, GitHub repo already public
Related event: Cohere Labs releases open World Models from Scratch course and book(2 posts)→
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