Comment by andy12_

How is it not a world model? The latents of the model apparently encode enough information to represent a semi-consistent interactuable world. Seems enough world-modely to me.

Besides, we already know that agents can be trained with these world models successfully. See[1]:

> By learning behaviors in imagination, Dreamer 4 is the first agent to obtain diamonds in Minecraft purely from offline data, without environment interaction. Our work provides a scalable recipe for imagination training, marking a step towards intelligent agents

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24527