LeCun's World Models Talk - What Holds Up and What Doesn't

Yann LeCun gave a talk at ETH Zürich last week, “World Models: Enabling the next AI revolution”. I went through the whole thing and checked his claims against the actual papers. Here is where he is right, where he overreaches. The talk is his standard world-models pitch, updated with new results from 2025: LeJEPA/SIGReg, V-JEPA intuitive physics, and the launch of his startup AMI Labs. It is also,…