Source: TechCrunch
The world models boom is creating a new opacity problem in AI development: companies are raising massive capital on vague promises while declining to share research, benchmarks, or even basic technical details about their systems. This mirrors the pre-GPT-3 secrecy playbook but with higher stakes. If these models are truly foundational infrastructure (as investors believe), the lack of independent verification makes it impossible to assess whether the technology delivers or if it's venture-scale capital masquerading as proof.