{"id":1016800,"date":"2026-06-25T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016800"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:51:31","slug":"tech-entrepreneurs-seeking-the-next-ai-frontier-are-pivoting-from-chatbots-to-world-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/25\/tech-entrepreneurs-seeking-the-next-ai-frontier-are-pivoting-from-chatbots-to-world-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech entrepreneurs seeking the next AI frontier are pivoting from chatbots to &#8216;world models&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models &#8211; the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude &#8211; when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We basically have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,&#8221; Castricato said. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s just applications.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The researcher quit his doctoral studies at Brown University and started a new company, called Overworld. Its ambition is in its name: AI that can understand and navigate a world, not just words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models &#8211; the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude &#8211; when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end. &#8220;We basically have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,&#8221; Castricato said. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s just applications.&#8221; The researcher quit his doctoral studies at Brown University and started a new company, called Overworld. Its ambition is in its name: AI that can understand and navigate a world, not just words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016822,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016800\/revisions\/1016822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}