The First Year of World Models: When AI's Supply-Side Revolution Moves From Generation to Understanding the Physical World

The First Year of World Models: When AI's Supply-Side Revolution Moves from Generation to Understanding the Physical World

BEIJING, Aug. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Over the past two years, the core proposition of the AI industry has been “generation” — generating text, images, video, and music. But on July 19, 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Fang Han, Chairman and CEO of Kunlun Tech (Parent company of Skywork AI), formally declared 2026 as “the first year of world models,” marking a pivotal transition in which AI evolves from content gener…

LTX launches new free-to-use open world model for video and physical AI

LTX has launched LTX-2.5, the latest version of its open-weights world model, introducing new capabilities for video generation, real-time applications and physical AI. The company says the new model delivers improvements in visual quality, prompt understanding, generation speed and efficiency, while allowing developers and enterprises to run and customize the model on their own hardware. […]