Fei-Fei Li dropped a taxonomy of world models this week, and I've been sitting with it the way you sit with a paper that reorganizes something you already believed but couldn't articulate cleanly. That feeling of clarification without surprise is rarer than it should be. https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/a-functional-taxonomy-of-world-models?embedable=true The World Labs team breaks the world model zoo into three functional categories: renderers, …