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Architecture

World model

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an internal simulator of how a situation evolves — imagining without acting

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L1, with a noted second cell. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

infer×L1 — it is used to roll a situation forward, not just to encode it

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointWorld modelModel-based RL

Unlocks: Model-based RL

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is made of: Self-supervised video, JEPA.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

42Models of the Worldact 9 · The Frontier

Where it comes from

paperScaling Laws for Neural Language ModelsJared Kaplan, et al. · 2020

Every connection

All 3 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 2
has as a partSelf-supervised videoMechanism
has as a partJEPAArchitecture
Order · 1
must come beforeModel-based RLMechanism

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