worldmodels.fyi

A reference catalog for embodied AI

The reference catalog of world models and simulation environments.

Browse, search, and compare the world model ecosystem — the models, the simulation environments they run in, and the relationships between them.

20Projects
10World Models
10Simulators
9Papers
20 results
availability
domain
architecture
capability
license
environment
World Model2024

Genie 2

Google DeepMind

Foundation world model that generates playable, action-controllable 3D environments from a single image.

ClosedGeneralGaming

1 relationships

World Model2025

NVIDIA Cosmos

NVIDIA

World foundation model platform for physical AI, with open diffusion and autoregressive video world models.

Open sourceWeights availableRoboticsDriving

3 relationships

World Model2025

V-JEPA 2

Meta AI (FAIR)

Self-supervised video joint-embedding predictive world model for understanding and planning.

Open sourceWeights availableGeneralRobotics

1 relationships

World Model2023

DreamerV3

Google DeepMind / Danijar Hafner

General model-based RL agent that learns a world model (RSSM) and plans in imagination across domains.

Open sourceGeneralGamingRobotics

2 relationships

World Model2025

World Labs

World Labs

Large World Models that generate persistent, explorable 3D worlds from a single image or prompt.

ClosedPreviewGeneral

1 relationships

World Model2025

GAIA-2

Wayve

Controllable video generative world model for autonomous driving scenario synthesis.

ClosedDriving

2 relationships

World Model2024

Oasis

Decart / Etched

Real-time, fully generated playable world model — an interactive game rendered frame-by-frame by a transformer.

Open sourceWeights availableGaming
World Model2025

SpAItial

SpAItial

Spatial Foundation Models that generate interactive, photorealistic 3D environments from a text prompt or image.

ClosedGeneralGaming

1 relationships

World Model2026

Pantograph Pan-1

Pantograph

Interactive world model pretrained on internet-scale video that achieves diverse goals in Minecraft via RL-based pretraining.

ClosedGamingRobotics

2 relationships

Simulator2021

MuJoCo

Google DeepMind

Fast, accurate rigid-body physics engine for robotics and RL; MJX adds GPU-batched, differentiable simulation.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedHeadless

4 relationships

Simulator2021

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

NVIDIA

Omniverse/USD robotics simulator with photorealistic RTX rendering and physically accurate sensor simulation.

ClosedProprietaryGPU acceleratedPhotorealism

4 relationships

Simulator2026

Genesis (World 1.0)

Genesis AI

Generative, GPU-accelerated simulation platform for robotics; World 1.0 pairs the multi-physics engine with the Nyx photorealistic renderer and the Quadrants compiler.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedDifferentiable physics

2 relationships

Simulator2023

AI Habitat

Meta AI (FAIR)

High-performance simulator for embodied AI in photorealistic 3D scans, with human-robot interaction (Habitat 3.0).

Open sourceMITGPU acceleratedHeadless
Simulator2024

ManiSkill

UC San Diego (Hao Su Lab)

GPU-parallelized robotic manipulation simulation and benchmark built on SAPIEN.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedHeadless

1 relationships

Simulator2026

Antioch

Antioch

Full-stack cloud simulation platform to test and deploy autonomous systems, with parallel cloud runs and an agent.

ClosedCommercialProprietaryGPU accelerated

1 relationships

Simulator2025

NVIDIA Newton

NVIDIA / Google DeepMind / Disney Research

Open-source, GPU-accelerated, differentiable physics engine for robot learning; built on Warp + OpenUSD and governed by the Linux Foundation.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedDifferentiable physics

2 relationships

Simulator2025

MuJoCo Playground

Google DeepMind

Open-source suite of 50+ GPU-accelerated robot-learning environments built on MuJoCo MJX for sim-to-real research.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedRL

2 relationships

Simulator2021

Brax

Google

JAX-based, massively-parallel differentiable physics engine for reinforcement learning on GPU/TPU.

Open sourceApache-2.0GPU acceleratedDifferentiable physics

1 relationships

Simulator2024

NVIDIA Isaac Lab

NVIDIA

Open GPU-accelerated robot-learning framework built on Isaac Sim; standardizes massively-parallel RL and imitation training environments.

Open sourceBSD-3-ClauseGPU acceleratedRL

2 relationships

World Model2025

Genie 3

Google DeepMind

Real-time interactive general-purpose world model generating playable 3D environments from a prompt.