# Audio Edition: ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

An episode of [The Quanta Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1021340531), 16 Jul 2026, 9:42.

Audio: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/11709/f51b76a7-9ba8-4ad0-a831-d06d330f7ba4/Quanta_294_v2.mp3

You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same? The article ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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