Pierre-Carl Langlais, co-founder and CTO of Pleias, describes Nvidia's SANA-WM as generative video with controls rather than a JEPA-style world model in a posted architecture diagram
The analysis followed a French National Assembly hearing on AI strategy.
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@Dorialexander It's funny because there was this big-ish call for AI startups in Germany that was literally the same shtick, "let's not catch up, let's leapfrog"
Alexander Doria@DorialexanderEst-ce que ces world models sont dans la pièce avec nous ?
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@giffmana @Dorialexander That has tradition. "Aufholen ohne Einzuholen"
Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana@Dorialexander It's funny because there was this big-ish call for AI startups in Germany that was literally the same shtick, "let's not catch up, let's leapfrog"
7:14 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1.9K Views
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J’ai rien contre explorer de nouvelles architectures mais l’essentiel de la recherche appliquée sur les world model repose sur de l’auto-régressif/diffusion
Alexander Doria@DorialexanderEst-ce que ces world models sont dans la pièce avec nous ?
5:11 PM · May 19, 2026 · 6.1K Views
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