Can AI-generated worlds remember what happened off-screen? How do dual-agent setups reduce costs? In this episode of Attention Span, we break down the biggest shifts in AI’s ability to understand, reason, and act in the physical and digital world.
We dive into Alaya’s programmable world model, real-world vs. simulated robotics with Telexistence and Skild S1, Cognition’s Devin Fusion and SWE-2, and the heated frontier slowdown debate between Dario Amodei and David Sacks.
Hosted by Ksenia Se (founder of Turing Post). Covering September 7–13, 2026.
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🔷 WORLD MODELS
Alaya PWM paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10540
Demonstrations: https://alaya-lab.github.io/pwm/
World Labs - Atlas: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas
World in World: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11548
🔶 ROBOTS & SIMULATION
AWS and Telexistence - DreamZero experiments: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/physical-ai/bringing-a-frontier-world-model-to-the-convenience-store-inside-telexistences-dreamzero-experiment-on-aws/
NVIDIA - Skild S1: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/skild-ai-s1-physical-ai/
Skild’s S1 research: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1
Mila and Worldmodeldata: https://mila.quebec/en/news/worldmodeldata-and-mila-partner-to-prove-scaling-law-for-world-models
🔹 DEVIN FUSION & SWE-2
Cognition - Fusion: https://cognition.com/blog/local-fusion
SWE-2: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
🔸 PERSIMMON & PERSONAL AGENTS
Persimmon: https://persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimmon.html
Grok Bot: https://x.ai/bot
Meta Muse: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/
Muse security architecture: https://research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-ai-agents-our-approach-with-muse
Attention Span episode on Muse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqzii7di7w
🔺 SAFETY, EVALUATORS & THE SLOWDOWN DEBATE
Anthropic - cybersecurity alignment assessment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybersecurity-incidents
Dario Amodei - We Must Pace the Frontier: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
Hugging Face Open Alignment Initiative: https://www.techmeme.com/260912/p13
David Sacks’s response: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
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